Internal Security Agency

The Internal Security Agency, ISA (Polish: Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego, ABW) is Poland's domestic counterintelligence and security agency. The ABW is responsible for analyzing, reporting and preventing threats to Poland's internal security, including terrorism, foreign espionage, arms smuggling, drug trafficking, organized crime, corruption and economic coercion. Its powers include arresting individuals, conducting searches and investigations, and combating terrorism with a specialized armed anti-terrorist force.

Internal Security Agency
Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego
Logo of the Agencja Bezpieczeństwa Wewnętrznego (ABW)
Agency overview
Formed29 June 2002
Preceding agency
  • Urząd Ochrony Państwa
JurisdictionGovernment of Poland
HeadquartersWarsaw, Poland
Annual budget710,356,000 zł (2023)
Ministers responsible
  • Donald Tusk, Prime Minister
  • Tomasz Siemoniak, Minister - Coordinator of Special Forces
Agency executives
  • Colonel Rafał Syrysko, Acting Head
  • Colonel Bernard Bogusławski, Deputy Head
  • Colonel Krzysztof Zieliński, Deputy Head
  • Colonel Michał Roguski, Deputy Head
Websitewww.abw.gov.pl/en

The ABW is headquartered on ul. Rakowiecka in the Mokotów district of Warsaw. As part of its institutional hierarchy, the Head of the ABW reports directly to the Prime Minister of Poland, who in turn provides oversight of the ABW, or can appoint a special minister to coordinate intelligence and security activities for oversight.: 16  The ABW is considered by the government of Poland to be one of the nation's special services.

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