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Noisy neighbour - Law in Poland


Silverfish
28 Jun 2021   #1
I just moved into a block of flats. Just a month after moving in, i've got a next door neighbour who likes to organise weekday parties with loud music until wee hours in the morning. i did give a courtesy knock on the door a few times in the last 6 months. As well as sending in polite text messages to get them to tone down after midnight. Each time they apologise and two weeks later the same happens. Late night parties, loud music, shouting, noisy conversation along the corridor. I don't want to be the nasty neighbour next door to call in the police but i work from home these days and i have the need to get up early in the morning. My question is, if i were to ring in the police, will the police inform the noisy neighbours? What is the law in Poland like on this matter?
pawian  224 | 27236
28 Jun 2021   #2
l as sending in polite text messages to get them

Where did you get their numbers from?

Each time they apologise

It is very nice of them.

to call in the police

What do other neighbours say? Don`t they complain? Party noise must be heard in all flats, not only on one storey.
mafketis  38 | 11137
28 Jun 2021   #3
will the police inform the noisy neighbours?

If these neighbors are renting then the traditional way of dealing with it is to contact the administration so that they will inform the owners that their tenants are annoying other residents and the owners deal with them (maybe kicking them out).

A couple of times that's happened to bad neighbors in buildings I've lived in (I did nothin' it was the other neighbors)
If they're really a bother that may already be happening.
jon357  72 | 23361
28 Jun 2021   #4
Call the Straż Miejska (something between PCSOs, Traffic Wardens, Council enforcement staff etc; they deal with plenty of noise complaints and issue fines for noise infringements in blocks) . Often if there's a loud midweek party with lots of guests, several people in an apartment building will call them so they'll not be sure who it is; after all, if they're as loud as you say, doubtless others will have either contacted them directly or just called the Straż.
pawian  224 | 27236
29 Jun 2021   #5
Call the Straż Miejska

Yes, silencing noisy neighbours is their job. 20 years ago they dropped in my flat after my annoyed neighbour one storey below had called them coz I allegedly did weight exercise at night. Of course it wasn`t true coz I was doing it during the day. But he was a bit crazy - I already told you he was a retired mathematician who used to stand on the crossroads and count passing cars for mental statistics calculations. Today I say prayers for his troubled soul.
pawian  224 | 27236
3 Feb 2025   #6
Americans, Brits or Israelis or anybody thinking of moving to Poland - remember, even your private argument or brawl might lead to you being prosecuted if you carry it out in a public place where you disturb others.

This is Poland - the country of the rule of law. Remember it always.

Bielany detectives have detained seven men in connection with a fight on the staircase of a block of flats on Wrzeciono. All have been charged with up to three years in prison. According to the police, the cause of the incident was a conflict between two men.
The incident took place in early January in a block of flats on Wrzeciono Street. The police determined that a fight had broken out on the stairwell between seven men: three 21-year-olds, a 23-year-old, a 25-year-old, a 29-year-old and a 35-year-old. Initially, the conflict was between two of them, but quickly escalated into a wider confrontation, drawing in more people.
"As a result of operational activities, detectives from Bielany established the identity of all participants and the exact course of the event. Investigators analyzed the monitoring recordings and collected witness statements, which allowed them to reconstruct the circumstances of the fight and the roles played by individual participants. Thanks to these findings, officers identified the suspects and carried out actions aimed at detaining them," reports Sub-Inspector Elwira Kozłowska from the District Police Headquarters in Warsaw V.

Alien  25 | 6353
6 Feb 2025   #7
stairwell

If they were fight in their apartment it wouldn't bother anyone, but in the stairwell... it doesn't happen.
jon357  72 | 23361
6 Feb 2025   #8
Wrzeciono

Ńot the best housing estate to live on.

It's a place that so e people would avoid late at ńoght.
Alien  25 | 6353
7 Feb 2025   #9
a place that so e people would avoid

Slums?
pawian  224 | 27236
7 Feb 2025   #10
avoid late at ńoght

Simply impossible. We don`t have such no-go zones in Polish cities like in London or other British cities.


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