One of the items on the agenda of the March session of the City Council was a report on public order and safety in 2015. It was presented, among others, by the head of the Bolesławiec police, Insp. Henryk Stefanko. After the county police commander's report, Arkadiusz Krzemiński, a councillor from the Local Government Platform, spoke:
What is the state of preparedness of the Polish police, as well as our local police, when it comes to terrorist acts? Is this something new for us?
“One of the police's tasks is combating terrorism. We are prepared in the county,” the commander replied. “According to assessments by the Foreign Intelligence Agency and the Internal Security Agency, the terrorist threat in Poland is low. On 23 March, we held a videoconference with the provincial police commander, who gave us relevant instructions for the coming period. In our case, this involved placing under special surveillance locations where such acts could occur—places where people gather.
The result? On the day the attacks took place in Belgium, plainclothes police patrols appeared in Bolesławiec's shopping centres.
“I believe that we are well prepared. But there is no country in the world prepared for every situation,” H. Stefanko emphasised. “According to the information we received from our superiors in Wrocław, there is no terrorist threat in our province, and therefore neither in our county.