ESSEX Police Chief Constable Stephen Kavanagh met with Colonel Rafal Batkowski, Director of International Co-operation of the Polish State Police, on Tuesday September 6.

During that meeting, Essex Police accepted an offer by the Polish State Police to send two officers to assist the Harlow Community Policing Team with their engagement work with Polish residents.

2nd Lieutenant Bartosz Czernicki and Chief Sergeant Dariusz Tybura will be working alongside the team for a week. Their role will be to support our engagement with the Polish community in Harlow. They will have no investigative role, and will be in uniform but will have no police powers.