Public safety and public order are fundamental elements of the sphere of internal safety of the State. The presented article, having shown the essence of and interrelationships between public safety and public order, deals with the issues of the role and tasks of the Police service as one of the most important guardians of those aspects of Poland’s internal safety. The principal themes of the study focus on such issues as: the statutory tasks, organisational structures, police authorities, personnel and material assets. Apart from indicating general statutory tasks, the articles shows them also in a broader perspective, in the context of the tasks performed at particular or¬ganisational levels: the central level represented by the National...