Kraków Mayor Łukasz Gibała has asked Prime Minister Donald Tusk to allocate PLN 10 million from the state budget for equipping the City Security and Monitoring Centre under construction. He announced this on X on Friday, 13 November.
Gibała described the request as urgent. In his post he explained that dispatchers from the Crisis Management Centre, the police, the fire service and the city guard are to work together in the centre, which should significantly facilitate the coordination of interventions.
The mayor also referred to recent events in the city: as he wrote, they show how important communication and an appropriate exchange of information are.
Support from parliamentarians
According to Gibała, four Kraków parliamentarians supported the appeal: Monika Piątkowska, Daria Gosek-Popiołek, Rafał Komarewicz and Jerzy Meysztowicz. Piątkowska was Gibała’s rival in the second round of the mayoral election, which he won with about 62 percent of the vote.
Background: the attack of 7 November
The request is linked to the attack on Kraków’s Main Market Square on Saturday, 7 November. After the attack, Gibała declared a period of mourning in Kraków, and a day later applied for honorary citizenship of the city for two police officers who detained the attacker.
As of publication, the Prime Minister’s Chancellery had not responded to the request. The mayor’s post contains no information about when the centre will be completed or how much the whole investment costs.
