Celem artykułu jest taka konkretyzacja teorii władzy w nie-Marksowskim materializmie historycznym aby uchwycić rolę tajnej policji w strukturze władzy politycznej i jej wpływ na rozwój społeczeństwa politycznego.The paper is an attempt to develop a concept of specifity in the operations of the secret police and its social significance. The attempt is made on the basis of theory of power in non-Marxian historical materialism. A standard model of political society is based on the following, silently supposed, assumptions: a-1: the rulers have complete and true knowledge about whole activity of citizens, a-2: the citizens have complete and true knowledge about the complete range of ruling regulations, a-3: the rulers keep the citizens under s...