Krosno Odrzańskie Guarded Centre for Foreigners
ul. Poprzeczna 1, 66-600 Krosno Odrzańskie · Krosno Odrzańskie, Lubusz Voivodeship
People counted there: 79 (as at 30 June 2024).
Temporarily out of operation (status as at: March 2026)
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.
This site is not in use. The figures on this page are dated, and none of them describes people held there now.
The Krosno Odrzańskie Guarded Centre for Foreigners is a Border Guard detention centre with its command at ul. Poprzeczna 1, Krosno Odrzańskie (Lubusz Voivodeship). It has been out of use for modernisation since 1 October 2024, and the Interior Ministry confirmed in March 2026 that it was still out of use. Before the closure it had 80 places (2022 and 2023), and AIDA gives 79 people held on 30 June 2024. It is not accommodation, and its places are not accommodation capacity.
Key facts
- Type
- Border Guard guarded centre for foreigners (detention)
- Operator
- Border Guard (Nadodrzański unit)[2]
- Address
- ul. Poprzeczna 1, 66-600 Krosno Odrzańskie. This is the address of the Nadodrzański Border Guard command that the Supreme Audit Office (NIK) used when it audited the centre.[2]
- Capacity
- No capacity is listed for 2024 or 2025. AIDA gives 80 places in 2022 and 2023.[3]
- People held
- 79 on 30 June 2024, before the closure (AIDA).[3]
- Status
- Out of use for modernisation since 1 October 2024. The Interior Ministry's reply of March 2026 confirms that it was still out of use. The sources used do not say when it will reopen.[1],[3]
- Opening
- The sources used do not give the opening date.
- Position of the pin
- The pin is on the mapped building at the address of the command. The exact building of the centre 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.[1],[3]
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
- MSWiA, odpowiedź na interpelację nr 14743 (03.2026)
- NIK, wystąpienie pokontrolne LRZ.411.004.01.2023 (09.01.2024)
- AIDA (ECRE), Poland: place of detention (updated 30.07.2026)
- MSWiA, odpowiedź na zapytanie nr 621 (10.07.2024)
[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.