Skargi i zażalenia w działalności prokuratorskiego nadzoru ogólnego w Polsce Ludowej

Abstract

General supervision by the public prosecutor's office in Communist Poland was implemented in 1950, together with the implementation of Soviet model of public prosecutor's office. The essence of general supervision was connected with the observance of the law by local administration and citizens. It was stressed that public prosecutors had to examine citizens' petitions and complaints as one of their the most important duties. According to law, petitions and complaints were constructed to protect citizens from the illegal activity of administration. In reality, they were treated as signals helping to improve functioning of State and economic apparatus, so that they were effective enough to realize goals of Communist authority. Complaints and petitions were taken into account from those groups of people, which were supported by the authority. It was important from their point to create the image of prosecutors as real and effective defenders of citizens' rights. In reality, huge amount of petitions and complaints was disorganizing the work of prosecutors, who couldn't concentrate on other duties. After the political changes in 1956 the role of general supervision was diminished. The prosecutors examined only these petitions and complaints, which were directly connected with the prosecuting.