Despite the fact that 30 years have passed since the collapse of communist power in Poland, no one has yet undertaken research into the beginnings of the commu nist repressive organs in the Wadowice area, especially into the personalities of the first functionaries. This article is the first such attempt, and out of necessity due to the abundance of source materials, it has been divided into two parts. The first part presents the profiles of the first five men of the Wadowice security force - Władysław Kubka, later Kubicki, Józef Kociuba, Franciszek Wywłoka, Mieczysław Sadowy, and Michał Czekierda, all of whom arrived in Wadowice on the 26th and 27th of January 1945 from Jarosław and the surrounding area as an operation group of the Ministr...