Mazowsze

9th April 2010

An unsightly row has broken out over the financial assistance to be paid to the family of Andrzej Struj, the off-duty Warsaw police officer killed when he tried to stop two hooligans who threw a rubbish bin at a moving tram (see NPE 6/57). Police Unions asked for the officer’s daughters to be given PLN 50,000 from the so-called ‘prevention fund’, but the Deputy Commissioner refused.

“We consider he has exceeded his authority and committed a bureaucratic crime,” Union Leader Janusz Labuz commented on Radio RMF FM, confirming that the unions have informed prosecutors of the matter. In their opinion the Commissioner was controlling funds he had no right to, as the funds are voluntary p ...