When the fresh rules become applicable, shooting of military facilities and critical infrastructure without authorisation will be treated as an offence – There's gonna be a fine or detention. Earlier, due to the deficiency of appropriate markings, The service was incapable to enforce it. The Regulation was published in the authoritative diary of the Laws on 3 April.
— This is simply a very crucial issue for us soldiers, due to the fact that we have changed the situation into a safety domain, besides in the territory of the Republic of Poland," said General Wiesław Kukuła during the Wednesday press conference in Warsaw.
‘Tools directed against abroad services’
As General Kukuła stressed, the introduction of regulations was essential due to an expanding threat from abroad intelligence services. — We observe a number of insignificant activities, which aims to get information about our critical infrastructure. We find photos of the location of our troops and military units in the detainees. “ He said. He added that they were "very frequently people associated with the intelligence of the Russian Federation or Belarus".
— Earlier, for respective years, we had a situation where it was legally allowed. This is simply a tool against abroad services. and supporting the creation of a culture of work for our safety,” stressed the Chief of General Staff, referring to the regulation. As he added, "This is not a novelty, it is simply a customized and a law in very many countries."
Head of the General Staff of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Gen. Cuckoo besides appealed to refrain from publishing photographs depicting the transport of military equipment. “I appeal to everyone that, especially on social media, we should not include photograph information and another data about what the Armed Forces are doing and how they are moving,” said the Chief of Staff of the HR. He added that This besides applies to "transport of support to Ukraine, or allied troops that support our defence".
The Regulation provides the legal basis for the intervention of order bodies (civil and military) in relation to persons who, without authorisation, photograph, movie or otherwise capture the image or image of objects, persons or movable objects peculiarly crucial for the safety or defence of the State, national defence services and critical infrastructure facilities.
The ban on shooting includes all ways of capturing, photographing and filming both from the ground and from the air (e.g. unmanned aircraft, as well as motoplanes, paragliders). Regulation concerns bodies, institutions, formations, entrepreneurs or organisational units in which the facilities are located.
