KOMENDA WOJEWODZKA POLICJI Z SIEDZIBA W RADOMIU

Their core work

The Komenda Wojewódzka Policji z siedzibą w Radomiu is the Provincial Police Headquarters for the Mazovian region of Poland, responsible for law enforcement operations across the province. In EU research, they function as an operational end-user partner — providing frontline police practitioner requirements, validating research outputs against real policing needs, and grounding security research in actual institutional practice. Their H2020 participation spans counter-terrorism work focused on preventing radicalization through counter-narratives, and network-building that connects intelligence and security practitioners with industry and academia. They represent the practitioner voice that bridges the gap between research proposals and deployable law enforcement tools.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their earliest H2020 project (TRIVALENT, 2017–2020) addressed a specific and urgent threat — terrorism prevention through counter-narrative methodology — reflecting the post-2015 European context of heightened radicalization concern. By 2021, their focus shifted upstream toward institutional infrastructure: NOTIONES aims to build the network of practitioners, industry actors, and academics who can collectively tackle security challenges over the long term. This progression — from fighting a specific threat to building the ecosystem that can fight many threats — suggests a maturing security research engagement, moving from reactive content to structural capacity-building.

Moving from project-specific counter-terrorism content toward building durable cross-sector networks between policing, industry, and academia — pointing toward a sustained role as a practitioner bridge rather than a one-issue partner.

How they like to work

They participate exclusively as consortium members, never as coordinators, which is consistent with their identity as an operational public authority rather than a research-leading body. Despite only two projects, they have worked with 49 unique partners across 23 countries — reflecting the large, multi-stakeholder consortium structure typical of EU security research — and suggesting they are actively sought as an end-user voice. For a potential collaborator, this means easy partnership but no project leadership; they bring institutional legitimacy and practitioner testing capacity, not research management.

With 49 unique partners across 23 countries from just two projects, they have an unusually broad European network relative to their modest funding volume — a direct result of joining large security research consortia. Their reach spans both Western European research institutions and Central-Eastern European security actors.

What sets them apart

As an operational regional police command rather than a university or think tank, they bring something most consortium members cannot: direct institutional authority, frontline policing procedures, and the ability to test research outputs under real law enforcement conditions. For any H2020 security project needing a practitioner end-user to satisfy reviewer requirements or validate applied impact, a functioning police headquarters provides both credibility and access to real operational environments. Their consistent focus on intelligence and security themes — across two distinct funding schemes (RIA and CSA) — shows a deliberate, not incidental, engagement with EU security research.

Highlights from their portfolio

• TRIVALENT
  Addressed one of the most pressing European security threats of 2017 — online radicalization and terrorism recruitment — through evidence-based counter-narrative strategies, placing this police authority at the intersection of law enforcement and digital social intervention.
• NOTIONES
  A Coordination and Support Action running through 2026 that ambitiously seeks to institutionalize collaboration between intelligence practitioners, security services, industry, and academia — one of the few projects explicitly designed to build the field rather than solve a single problem.