Before the police officer suspected of raping a fellow female officer was arrested, there had already been other complaints filed against him, including ones concerning the consumption of alcohol on police premises. This surprising information was reported today by the website Wyborcza.pl. It is surprising because when, just a few days earlier, Niezalezna.pl asked about disciplinary and prosecutorial proceedings, we were told that… there had been none in recent years. In whose interest was it to conceal this inconvenient information?
The shocking incident occurred at the beginning of the year (January 3) on the premises of the Warsaw Police Preventive Unit. In the barracks in Piaseczno, a young policewoman was raped. Neither the prosecution nor the police wanted to disclose details of the brutal crime; this was done—in the public interest—by the Niezalezna.pl portal.
The policewoman was summoned by her superior in the middle of the night, and when she entered the room, he locked the door from the inside. Using violence, including choking the woman, and despite her unequivocal resistance, he committed a brutal crime— as we wrote at the time.
From the outset, we have been closely following the case and verifying new information, including earlier signals concerning police officers from this unit, among them the suspect in the rape.
Questions About Disciplinary Proceedings. Nothing Was Done?
On January 9, we asked how many disciplinary proceedings had been initiated over the past three years in connection with irregularities, failure to perform duties, or abuse of authority, as well as misdemeanors and crimes that may have occurred on the premises of the Warsaw Police Preventive Unit barracks (Piaseczno, 44E Puławska Street) against officers subordinate to this unit. We also asked how many officers had been punished, suspended, or dismissed from service.
We were informed that “over the past three years, the Warsaw Metropolitan Police Headquarters has not conducted disciplinary proceedings in connection with irregularities, failure to perform duties, or abuse of authority, misdemeanors, or crimes that were alleged to have occurred on the premises of the Warsaw Police Preventive Unit.” Consequently, none of the police officers had been disciplinarily punished, wrote Junior Inspector Jacek Wiśniewski of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police Headquarters.
We also asked the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office: “How many proceedings against police officers subordinate to the Warsaw Police Preventive Unit (Piaseczno, 44E Puławska Street) have been initiated by the prosecution over the past three years in connection with the possibility of a crime being committed on the barracks premises?”
“After checking with the District Prosecutor’s Office in Piaseczno and the District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, I inform you that no such proceedings were conducted in previous years,” replied Prosecutor Piotr Skiba.
Complaint Against Marcin J. Alcohol Case Involved
Meanwhile, today Wyborcza.pl reported that already in December the police had received an anonymous complaint against Marcin J., the suspect in the rape case. The matter concerned, among other things, the consumption of alcohol in the unit. It turns out that an anonymous letter regarding J. was submitted to the National Police Headquarters and subsequently forwarded to the Internal Affairs Bureau of the Police. The letter reportedly indicated irregularities initially classified as abuse of authority or failure to perform duties. It also allegedly included information about Marcin J. consuming alcohol on the unit’s premises.
Wyborcza.pl obtained information that “this case was forwarded on January 12, 2026, to the head of one of the departments of the Prosecutor’s Office, who decided that the case would be handled at the level of the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office.”
Meanwhile, Prosecutor Skiba replied to us on January 13, and Junior Inspector Wiśniewski on January 15—yet neither mentioned the disturbing information about Marcin J. that was allegedly reaching police leadership.