Biała Podlaska Guarded Centre for Foreigners
ul. Dokudowska 19, 21-500 Biała Podlaska · Biała Podlaska, Lublin Voivodeship
Capacity: 105 places (as at 31 December 2025).
People counted there: 98 (as at 31 December 2025).
In use (status as at: 31 December 2025)
Immigration detention, not accommodation
This is a place of custody pending removal. It is not accommodation, its places are not counted as accommodation capacity anywhere on this site, and it is shown apart from the reception sites.
Border Guard guarded centres hold foreigners under a court order. Their 2025 costs include staff, unlike the figures for the Office for Foreigners' reception centres, so the two sets of figures are not comparable and are not added together.
The Biała Podlaska Guarded Centre for Foreigners is a Border Guard detention centre at ul. Dokudowska 19, Biała Podlaska (Lublin Voivodeship). It holds men placed there by court order pending removal. At the end of 2025 it had 105 places and 98 people held (AIDA). It is a separate site from the Office for Foreigners' reception centre on the same street. It is not accommodation, and its places are not accommodation capacity.
Key facts
- Type
- Border Guard guarded centre for foreigners (detention)
- Operator
- Border Guard (Nadbużański unit). The centre is an organisational unit of the Border Guard post in Biała Podlaska.[2]
- Address
- ul. Dokudowska 19, 21-500 Biała Podlaska. This is the address of the Border Guard post, of which the centre is a unit. The reception centre of the Office for Foreigners has the same address and is a separate site.[2],[3]
- Status
- In use at the end of 2025.[4]
- Opening
- The sources used do not give the opening date.
- Cost in 2025
- PLN 14,361,546.30, of which staff PLN 11,107,550.65 (Interior Ministry reply of March 2026). Staff are included here, unlike in the reception centre figures.[1]
- Held and deported in 2025
- The ministry's reply of March 2026 gives, for 2025, 448 people held and 148 people deported.[1]
- Position of the pin
- The pin is on the mapped building of the centre at the address of the Border Guard post.
Background
Guarded centres for foreigners are run by the Border Guard. People are placed in them by court order, pending removal. They hold foreigners, including people who have applied for international protection. They are separate from the open reception centres run by the Office for Foreigners.[4],[5]
At the end of 2025, five guarded centres were in use (Biała Podlaska, Białystok, Kętrzyn, Lesznowola and Przemyśl), with 1,032 places and 795 people held in total, counting the arrest unit in Przemyśl (AIDA). The Krosno Odrzańskie centre has been out of use since 1 October 2024.[4],[6]
The 2025 costs of the guarded centres come from the Interior Ministry's replies to interpellations 14740 to 14745 (March 2026). Unlike the figures for the reception centres, they include staff, so the two sets of figures are not comparable and are not added together.[1]
Reported incidents
Incidents connected with this site that official or mainstream sources have reported, each attributed, with the stage reached as the source states it. Suspects are not named. Counts of police interventions are the Interior Ministry's own and are not criminal charges.
Date: 6 April 2017 · Stage: Reported
A Border Guard notice of 7 April 2017 described events at the centre on 6 April 2017 at about 03:00. It said that three men, citizens of Russia, threatened and assaulted officers, that tear gas and handcuffs were used, that an ambulance found no hospitalisation was needed, and that the removal went ahead. The notice said that steps were being taken to charge them with assaulting officers on duty. No later outcome was found in the sources used.[7]
Sources
- MSWiA, odpowiedź na interpelację nr 14740 (03.2026)
- Straż Graniczna, Nadbużański Oddział: Placówka SG w Białej Podlaskiej
- NIK, kontrola P/14/049 (2015)
- AIDA (ECRE), Poland: place of detention (updated 30.07.2026)
- MSWiA, odpowiedź na zapytanie nr 621 (10.07.2024)
- MSWiA, odpowiedź na interpelację nr 14743 (03.2026)
- Straż Graniczna, Nadbużański Oddział: komunikat z 07.04.2017
[1]: official source
The centres run by the Office for Foreigners (UdSC) are the nine that the Interior Ministry (MSWiA) lists in its reply to Sejm interpellation 14750 of 12 May 2026. The number of residents on 31 December 2025 and the 2025 running cost of each centre come from that reply. The ministry gives no total, and the total of PLN 38.9m used on this site is our sum of the nine figures. The running cost excludes staff wages and the allowances paid to people living outside the centres. Capacity for 2025 is published only as a total of 1,525 places (AIDA, citing Office for Foreigners data), so no centre shows a capacity of its own for 2025; where an earlier per-centre figure exists it is shown with its date. Border Guard detention is listed apart and is not accommodation: its 2025 costs and numbers held come from the ministry's replies to interpellations 14740 to 14745 (March 2026), and its places and numbers held at the end of 2025 from AIDA. The Office for Foreigners' own list of centres showed no content when we checked on 4 October 2026, so addresses and positions come from the sources named on each page and are marked approximate where they are not the publisher's own.