As many as 1,000 military police are to be made redundant following Poland abolishing conscription. “There’s nobody left to arrest,” they complain.

Poland’s military police (MP) consists of headquarters, 10 regular and 3 special units and 45 regional stations and employs 3,500 soldiers. When military service in Poland was obligatory MPs spent alot of time searching for men who tried to avoid conscription and deserters.

“We had a lot of work. But now there’s no one left to catch,” an MP from the north-western city of Szczecin told the Gazeta Wyborcza daily.  (mg)