Operational Control pursuant to the Act on State Protection Service

Operational control is one of the most important powers of the state police services, including, since 2018, the State Protection Service (Służba Ochrony Państwa – SOP). The analysis of the title issue presented in the article leads to the conclusion that the shape of the operational control, which is a novum in the security service, which is the SOP, does not differ from the solutions used in regulating the operational powers of other Polish services, both in terms of the principles and procedure of applying control operational, and the (technical) ways of using this power in practice.