Cases
● Detention for deportation
On 8 August 2026, police launched a large-scale search in fields and forests near Łukowo after two foreign drivers reported that nine other foreigners had allegedly taken their car keys…
● Detention for deportation
On 1 and 3 August, Poland deported two Ukrainian citizens to Ukraine after police and Border Guard checks. One had a final conviction for drunk driving and was already listed…
● Detention for deportation
On 7 July 2026, officers of the Polish Border Guard and Police detained six foreign nationals after they crossed the Polish-Lithuanian border on foot at an unauthorized location in the…
● Detention for deportation
During the weekend of 12-13 June 2026, officers of the Polish Border Guard detained 45 foreign nationals who had crossed the Polish-Lithuanian border illegally outside designated border-control points. The migrants,…
● Detention for deportation
Polish police detained 21 migrants who had crossed the Lithuanian-Polish border near the village of Widugiery in the Puńsk municipality. The group consisted of 20 men and one woman from…
● Detention for deportation
Poland’s Border Guard deported three of nine Afghan men to Kabul on 10 April 2026, even though the European Court of Human Rights had issued binding interim measures to stop…
● Detention for deportation
Polish authorities planned a deportation of Afghan nationals to Kabul for April 10–12, 2026, despite warnings from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) that Afghanistan remains deeply unsafe — marked by…
● Detention for deportation
On April 4, police in Toruń detained a 25-year-old Zimbabwean man who was walking naked across the Józef Piłsudski Bridge. He was heavily intoxicated but non-aggressive. Officers subsequently discovered that…
● Detention for deportation
A 38-year-old Belarusian volunteer named Siarhiej, who had been helping Ukrainians through the organization Kwitnący Dom, was detained in Warsaw on October 19, 2025, due to an expired residence permit.…
● Detention for deportation
A 42-year-old Ukrainian train driver was detained after operating a Kyiv–Chełm passenger train under the influence of alcohol. The situation was reported by customs officers who noticed signs of intoxication…
● Detention for deportation
A 21-year-old Ukrainian citizen and a 17-year-old Belarusian girl were detained for flying a drone over government buildings near Belweder, an area under a no-fly zone. The Ukrainian man was…
● Detention for deportation
A 42-year-old Ukrainian citizen was detained after repeated minor offenses, mostly petty thefts of alcohol. Police reported that between January and September 2025, he was involved in eight such incidents.…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard stopped a car driven by a Ukrainian citizen legally residing in Poland, carrying a Pakistani man and two Afghan men who had crossed from Belarus and attempted to…
● Detention for deportation
Officers from the Silesian and Carpathian Border Guard Units detained 22 foreigners staying in Poland in violation of their declared purpose of stay or without any documents allowing them to…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard detained 12 foreign nationals working in poultry plants — 7 from Colombia, 4 from Guatemala, and 1 from Nepal — for overstaying visa-free limits or lacking valid documents.…
● Detention for deportation
Monitoring systems along the Bug River alerted Border Guard officers in the Sławatycze area to a group of 13 people from Afghanistan who had crossed into Poland from Belarus. They…
● Detention for deportation
On July 30, 2025, Border Guard officers from the Nadwiślański Unit carried out multiple residence checks in three regions of Poland. Over 100 people were checked, and 17 — from…
● Detention for deportation
Warsaw Border Guard officers deported two Ukrainian nationals following serious legal violations and breaches of residence regulations. One man was handed over by police after being found driving under the…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers detained 9 people during residence status checks. Those detained included 4 from Colombia, 1 from Vietnam, 1 from Kyrgyzstan, 1 from Uzbekistan, 1 from the Philippines, and…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers at Warsaw Chopin Airport detained a 34-year-old Iranian woman arriving from Athens for using falsified Bulgarian identity documents. Both the passport she presented and an ID card…
● Detention for deportation
Between 22–24 July, Border Guard officers from Bielsko-Biała, together with local police, carried out joint operations targeting people hiding from law enforcement. They checked the residence status of 41 foreign…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers stopped a car driven by a Ukrainian national carrying six Afghan nationals without valid documents, allegedly assisting them in an attempt to cross from Poland into Germany.…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers from the newly established unit in Ruda Śląska detained 2 foreign nationals with prior criminal convictions, while units from Częstochowa, Sosnowiec, and Bielsko-Biała detained 3 more —…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers detained 12 people without valid documents: six from Colombia, one from Indonesia, one from Ghana, one from Cuba, one from Zimbabwe, one from Bangladesh, and one from…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers from Tuplice detained an Afghan man without valid documents and a 56-year-old Polish citizen accused of helping him attempt to cross into Germany. The Afghan national received…
● Detention for deportation
The Border Guard, in cooperation with Frontex, carried out a return operation for 40 foreign nationals — 27 from Georgia and 13 from Moldova — who were flown out of…
● Detention for deportation
A joint patrol of the Polish Border Guard and Territorial Defence Forces stopped 13 people in a forested area about 3 km from the Lithuanian border. According to the authorities,…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers from the Carpathian unit detained 5 people — a woman from Colombia, two men from Nigeria, a man from Tajikistan, and a man from Ukraine — for…
● Detention for deportation
Over a four-day period, Border Guard units from Sosnowiec, Bielsko-Biała, Opole, and Ruda Śląska detained 18 people during checks on residence status. The group included nationals of Colombia, Peru, Bangladesh,…
● Detention for deportation
A 26-year-old Georgian citizen repeatedly drifted a car in the center of Środa Wielkopolska and later got out of the vehicle to perform the lezginka dance. Police stopped him during…