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Państwowy Korpus Bezpieczeństwa (Polish for "National Security Corps", abbreviatedPKB; sometimes also calledKadra Bezpieczeństwa, abbreviatedKB) was a Polish undergroundpolice force organized underGerman occupation duringWorld War II by the PolishHome Army andGovernment Delegation for Poland. It was trained as the core of a future police force for a planned Polish all-national uprising, and for after Poland's liberation. The Corps' first commander was Lt. Col.Marian Kozielewski. He was later replaced byStanisław Tabisz. In October 1943 thePKB had 8,400 officers; by early 1944 the number had grown to almost 12,000.
The PKB was created by the Department of the Internal Affairs of theDelegate's Office in 1940, mostly from members of the pre-war Polish police and volunteers. PKB carried outinvestigation andcriminal intelligence duties as well as gathered reports of theGestapo andKripo in theGeneral Government. It enforced the verdicts prepared by theDirectorate of Civil Resistance andDirectorate of Underground Resistance and passed by theUnderground court.
A unit of PKB commanded byHenryk Iwański purportedly distinguished itself during theWarsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. However, according to the work of a Polish-Israeli research team (Dr. Dariusz Libionka and Dr. Laurence Weinbaum), much of what Henryk Iwański wrote should be relegated to the realm of confabulation or manipulation of the Communist secret police.[1]
