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Kętrzyn Guarded Centre for Foreigners

ul. gen. Władysława Sikorskiego 78, 11-400 Kętrzyn · Kętrzyn, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Capacity: 205 places (as at 31 December 2025).

People counted there: 189 (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 Kętrzyn Guarded Centre for Foreigners is a Border Guard detention centre at ul. gen. Władysława Sikorskiego 78, Kętrzyn (Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship). It holds men. At the end of 2025 it had 205 places and 189 people held (AIDA). AIDA also reports that containers were introduced again there. It is not accommodation, and its places are not accommodation capacity.

Key facts

Type: Border Guard guarded centre for foreigners (detention)
Operator: Border Guard (Warmińsko-Mazurski unit)^[2]
Address: ul. gen. Władysława Sikorskiego 78, 11-400 Kętrzyn. This is the employer's address in a civil-service job advert for a post in the guarded centre.^[2]
Capacity: 205 places at the end of 2025 (AIDA). AIDA reports that containers were introduced again there.^[3]
People held: 189 at the end of 2025 (AIDA).^[3]
Status: In use at the end of 2025.^[3]
Opening: The sources used do not give the opening date.
Cost in 2025: PLN 19,949,705.94, of which staff PLN 14,209,155.00 (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, 556 people held and 152 people deported.^[1]
Position of the pin: The pin is on the mapped building at that address. The centre is within the Border Guard command complex, and the exact building is not confirmed.

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.^[3],[4]

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.^[3],[5]

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.^[6]

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.

No incident connected with this site is recorded in the sources listed on this page.

Sources

[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.

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