Analysis of the professional situation of officers of the State Fire Service

Abstract

The sense of security is one of humanityʼs main needs. Despite the development of civilization and progressing urbanization, units are exposed to many threats that must be effectively eliminated by dispositional groups of Polish society and their professionally prepared staff. The author char-acterizes the State Fire Service, which is a paramilitary formation of the state security system. He shows a  rich but complicated history and then describes the social model of the firefighter. The second part is the analysis of quantitative research. The author verifies the level of satisfaction of firefighters based on their professional role.