Legal basis

None specific. The ministry states the new team's principal task is to develop safe and transparent rules for AI use, consistent with European data protection and civil rights standards.

Oversight

A ministerial AI team, established 22 April 2026, is tasked with setting the rules. No independent regulator identified; reporting notes the announcement carried no implementation timetable, costs, or stated mechanism for auditing the algorithms.

Recorded with low confidence on specifics deliberately. Poland's Interior Ministry announced in 2026 that AI would support criminal investigations, evidence analysis, searching large volumes of recordings, pattern detection, connecting related facts across cases, emergency-call analysis and facial recognition for border protection. This is a programme announcement of intent and direction; no specific named system, vendor or confirmed operational deployment was found in the material reviewed, and this entry should be read as a statement of policy direction rather than a confirmed technology in use. Sourcing and detail, verified August 2026. On 22 April 2026 the Interior Minister, Marcin Kierwinski, announced the creation of a dedicated AI team covering the Police, Border Guard and the 112 emergency notification system. The ministry's own statement describes intended uses as: analysis of evidential material, with AI able to search thousands of hours of recordings or thousands of documents; detection of patterns linking apparently unconnected facts; and automated detection of anomalies for cybercrime. The Border Guard is to be supported by automation covering biometrics and image recognition, including automatic detection of border violations. The minister separately stated AI would be used for facial image recognition in border protection. Still a programme announcement rather than a deployment. The ministry gives the team's principal task as developing safe and transparent rules for AI use. Polish reporting notes the announcement contained no implementation timetable, no indication of which systems would go live first, no costs, and no stated mechanism for scrutinising how the algorithms operate. The minister's stated starting point was that the existing IT tools for data processing were built more than twenty years ago. The team held its first meeting in May 2026.

Source: Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnetrznych i Administracji (MSWiA), official announcement · last checked 2026-08-25