Noisy neighbour - Law in Poland

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?

@Silverfish▲ 0▼ 0

Where did you get their numbers from?


It is very nice of them.


What do other neighbours say? Don`t they complain? Party noise must be heard in all flats, not only on one storey.

@pawian▲ 0▼ 0

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.

@mafketis▲ 0▼ 0

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.

@jon357▲ 0▼ 0

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▲ 0▼ 0

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.

@pawian▲ 0▼ 0

If they were fight in their apartment it wouldn't bother anyone, but in the stairwell... it doesn't happen.

@Alien▲ 0▼ 0

Ńot the best housing estate to live on.

It's a place that so e people would avoid late at ńoght.

@jon357▲ 0▼ 0

Slums?

@Alien▲ 0▼ 0

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

@pawian▲ 0▼ 0

Nor do we, however the police are reporting more and more street crime in Wawrzyszew/Wrzeciono and interestingly in Stary Mokotow.

Interestingly, the towns in Poland wiith the highest crime levels are Sobotka, Chorzow and Legnica.

@jon357▲ 0▼ 0

Don't worry about noisy neighbors - worry about data centers. People living near data centers describe it as like living inside a vacuum. Poles need to wise up and be proactive by not allowing data centers to be built in their neighborhoods.

In the US, they move quickly and buy up land, even in the vicinity of densely populated neighborhoods. When citizens complain, their only option (if they're lucky) is to be offered a buyout of their property - at a very low, below-market value. That's how they deal with peasants.

@Ron2▲ 0▼ 0

Hoho, good one!

The 'rule of law' is particularly evident in main Warsaw streets like Marszalkowska, covered in scrawl from pavement to rooftop.


Says someone who believes everything he hears online and has probably never even been to the UK.

Name even one neighbourhood of even one British city where football hooligans and other reprobates have been allowed to cover all the walls with infantile idiocy. Now look at your entire capital (aside from a few small pockets of the centre and old town). 'Rule of law', haha.

@RuleOfLaw▲ 0▼ 0