Supreme Court allows civilian fire service substitute military service to count as police pension service.

The Supreme Court of Poland quashed the appellate court's dismissal of Bogdan L.'s pension claim regarding his substitute military service. The applicant argued that his time serving as a designated firefighter in civil defense units should count toward police pension eligibility, while the lower courts rejected this based on a distinction between military and civil defense service. The court ruled that because the applicant performed actual service in a professional fire brigade unit, this period must be treated equivalently to military service for pension calculation purposes.