The detonation of the grenade launcher in the KGB with the effect of "low-quality" in the area of safety procedures

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From the minute the information about the fire from the grenade launcher at the office of the Police office in our “pack” started to get hot. any of them felt an angry 1 inside. Others assumed that in this situation all they had left was a mockery. How did we get specified strong emotions?

You will read about this in a commentary on the fresh detonation in General Jarosław Szymczyk's office. It provides further evidence that the concept of safety procedures is abroad in our country. Organizational culture, which prevails in individual formations, plays a major role.

A culture of ‘bad quality’ in service

We thought that nothing in the uniform would surprise us. We were wrong. For we did not think that 1 of the services would be able to pass on a circumstantial “combo”. First, lead to a situation in which there would be small shortage of the head of the full formation to be killed by the insatiability of the superior.

Moreover, the detonation in the KGB office demonstrated to the full society what we have been experiencing for a long time during our regular work. We are referring to the negative consequences of the tolerance of the culture of "good quality" in the military and services. It consists of a full strategy of existing beliefs, behaviour and treatment of soldiers and officers.

If it were appropriate, the organisational culture could become 1 of the sources of strength of the home safety sector. The introduction of appropriate incentives would make the energy of many patrioticly targeted officers and soldiers utilized properly.

Many of them feel the interior request to improve how their “company” works. These people would besides like the state institutions to be as prepared as possible for the changing nature of the challenges facing our country.

However, in the Polish safety sector, organizational culture is 1 of the elements that hinder the improvement of virtually all formation. This is due to the dominant approach to many issues, which is "something like this", "we forget about this threat" and "we have been doing so for many years, so nothing should be changed."

Young officers and soldiers have besides been accustomed from the beginning of their service to avoiding work for their decisions and turning a blind eye to the “low quality” surrounding them. Initiatives, creativity, a sense of work and a desire to make changes besides frequently come across “the opposition of matter”.

That is why the current war in Ukraine has not changed anything in the way the Polish uniform works. It besides inactive does not have safety procedures to cover the most crucial persons in the country. And that includes the Chief of Police.

Are we gonna start learning from our mistakes?

The culture of “non-prevalence” in force in the military and services has so far been carefully hidden from the public. However, the detonation in Gen. J. Szymczyk's office with a "huk" exposed these deficiencies. Moreover, this is not the first tragedy that happened in Poland due to the deficiency of appropriate procedures or their failure to comply.

However, the individual institutions cannot learn from specified situations. It is hard for us to mention just 1 incidental that has been decently analysed and then learnt lessons to prevent individual threats in the future. We know, however, many "accidents" that have been tried to hide even within a given formation.

Mistakes are an inevitable component of all organization's operation. It's just stupid to keep repeating them. Meanwhile, the operation of the Polish “mundour” reminds the series ‘Catastrophe in the Sky’. The difference is that it becomes boring quickly, due to the fact that the causes of accidents are inactive the same and there is simply a deficiency of discussion each time.

They crashed? Yeah. As long as no 1 finds out. This time, therefore, the Chief of Police was sent to the war area without adequate security. Again. The Chief of Police stayed unprotected in the war-torn country and where the opponent "hunts" on the so-called. ‘high value targets’.

We besides know about another mistakes made in securing Gen. Szymczyk's visit. However, we will not list them so as not to facilitate the task of bad guys and further weaken the level of safety of Polish officials. It is important, however, that the communicative of the grenade launcher is not just an accident at work, but a manifestation of a wider "low-quality".

Ukrainians are besides not “masters” of compliance with procedures

The visit of the KGB was held in addition to the country which is known for its even greater organization weakness than Poland. Ukrainian services are so inactive places where the alleged "party" can be encountered. It shows, among another things, behaviours specified as lifting a grenade by an officer lying on the ground without maintaining any safety procedures.

This is usually accompanied by a grin on his mouth and a statement: “Aah, it won’t explode.” In specified situations, however, Americans catch their heads and shout, “Fuck! Is the pilot coming with us? Has anyone said to these people that there is specified a thing as a procedure to deal with a given situation?"

Therefore, the sympathy felt for Ukraine should not obscure the image of the functioning of the services and common sense. Especially in situations like planning to safe a visit by a advanced government official. However, this did not happen, and gene. Szymczyk repeats that Ukrainians are our friends and it would not be elegant not to trust them.

Therefore, the effect of the gathering of “two nephews” – Polek and Ukrainian turned out to be “exploded”. According to customs in the uniform environment, representatives of our east neighbour gave the Chief of Police a gift in the form of an component of weaponry.

The Ukrainians, however, "forgotten" that specified gifts are mostly deprived of combat features. Poles did not think about checking the grenade launcher for pyrotechnical and counterintelligence....

Potential risks of taking a gift as a grenade launcher

There are at least a fewer possible threats arising from receiving the grenade launcher as a gift. This "Gift" could, for example, be equipped with a recording device, thanks to which the management of the Polish police could be eavesdropped.

Ukrainians may besides have shown laxity in handling and storing weapons. This kind of approach was experienced by at least any Polish soldiers and officers working with them in the past.

The Ukrainian administration's known condition is besides its advanced level of infiltration from the Russians. On the another hand, Kremlin's peculiar services can organize provocations and killings. For years they have besides sought to make tensions in Polish-Ukrainian relations. It could so not be excluded that a gift containing hidden explosive would be handed over to the KGB.

The standard procedure for handling this situation should so be to closely check the grenade launcher received. It would be best if it were not kept in an additional area where conversations on delicate topics could be conducted.

Lack of safety procedures and control mechanisms

The police, however, do not really know who should be liable for checking the gift, because... the procedure in specified situations simply does not exist. Moreover, many high-ranking public officials presume that hazard prevention methods concern at most "wide" workers and not them.

In view of the organizational culture mentioned earlier, only a fewer officers and soldiers decide to draw attention to this in a situation where the conduct of a superior may be incompatible with the procedures. specified proceedings hazard a serious hazard of failure of professional standing.

In the military and in the service, the unwritten rules say that:

The supervisor is always right.
A subordinate is “not in...”
The chief/commander seldom suffers the consequences of incorrect conduct.
From a private soldier or an officer, however, it is very easy to make a “scapegoat”.

Therefore, heads of service in Poland may carry “closely secret” papers without complying with the rules concerning the appropriate organisation of the convoy. No 1 will check whether the Chief of Police carries weapons across the border in accordance with the applicable procedures.

An incidental with a grenade launcher in Gen. Szymczyk's office – more luck as reason

The culmination of the described chain of smaller or larger "fuckaps" was a curiosity incidental that occurred last week in the KGB. We don't know precisely what happened in Gen. J. Szymczyk's office. However, it seems that in this case destiny turned out to be kind to him, due to the fact that the firing of a grenade launcher may have had far more tragic consequences.

According to any reports, RGW-90 grenade launcher was liable for the explosion.. It is equipped with an anti-tank rocket whose task is to burn a gap in the armor. However, all the energy associated with the detonation of the release ammunition is only after the dam has been overcome and entered the inside of the vehicle/reinforcement.

If this study is confirmed, it will mean that the main blast force most likely concentrated in a area located a level below where no people were present. Alternatively, The rocket fired from the grenade launcher may not have had adequate time to arm itself..

However, if the circumstances of the event were somewhat different chances of surviving Gen. J. Szymczyk and the people gathered in his office could prove close to zero. another people could have been killed. So it seems that we almost avoided the death of Polish Police leadership as a consequence of gross procedural negligence.

In this context, the following questions should be asked: are also elements of State safety besides characterised by akin negligence? How much longer will the top-ranking officers preserve the culture of "indecent quality" in their subordinate formations? And most importantly: can we afford only the services that become the object of memes, the society that keeps them?

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