Part II. Questions Concerning Individual Institutions 0f The Government of Our Voivodeship
Question 12: How do Voivodeship Executive Agencies work?
12.1 The exercise of executive power in our Voivodeship is supported by Voivodeship Executive Agencies, including the Model Voivodeship Prosecutor's Office, Voivodeship Police, Voivodeship Fire Brigade and Voivodeship Treasury Administration.
12.2 The Model Voivodeship Prosecutor's Office consists of the Voivodeship Prosecutor, their deputies, county prosecutors and their deputies as well as other prosecutors of the Voivodeship Prosecutor's Office and county prosecutor's offices established in the area of our Voivodeship. These prosecutors represent the public in criminal cases considered in the first instance by the county court in our Voivodeship and observe the rule of law in accordance with the rules set out in national and voivodeship laws. The Model Voivodeship Prosecutor's Office cooperates with the National Prosecutor's Office and its subordinate District Prosecutor's Office in our Voivodeship.
12.3. Voivodeship Police is a uniformed and armed formation supporting the National Police as well as Communal or Municipal Police operating in our Voivodeship in protecting the safety of people and property and maintaining security and public order in our Voivodeship. The Voivodeship Police is responsible for the recruitment and training of communal or municipal police officers, performs internal control tasks in the Communal or Municipal Police, and maintains security and public order in communes and cities that have not established Communal or Municipal Police. The Voivodeship Police is headed by the Commander. The Commander issues opinions on the appointment and dismissal of Communal or Municipal Police Commandants in our Voivodeship and supervises the Communal and Municipal Police units with regard to the use of direct coercive measures, detentions, personal control and the imposition of fines in the mandate procedure.
12.4 The Voivodeship Prosecutor, County Prosecutors and the Commander of the Voivodeship Police shall be appointed by the Voivodeship Council of Ministers from among persons entered in the appropriate human resources maintained, respectively, by the national Minister of Justice and the minister in charge of internal affairs. A citizen may be removed from the human resources by an administrative decision of the competent minister, but only after reaching the age of 70 or for important, justified reasons.
12.5 The Voivodeship Treasury Administration performs tasks related to the implementation of revenues from local and Voivodeship taxes, protection of the assets of the subnational government units of our Voivodeship, at the same time providing services and support to citizens in the proper performance of their tax obligations. It is headed by the Voivodeship Minister in charge of public finance or a Deputy Minister subordinate to them. Organizational units of the Voivodeship Treasury Administration are tax offices headed by the heads.
12.6. The Voivodeship Resolution may establish other Voivodeship Executive Agencies and the Inter-Voivodeship Resolution – Inter-Voivodeship Executive Agencies.
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