Patryk Jaki

Patryk Jaki
First Deputy Minister of Justice
Incumbent
Assumed office 16 November 2015
President	Andrzej Duda
Prime Minister	Beata Szydło
Personal details
Born	(1985-05-11) 11 May 1985 Opole, Poland
Political party	United Poland (2013-present) Law and Justice (2003-2006, 2006-2013) Civic Platform (2006–2006)
Alma mater	University of Wrocław

Patryk Tomasz Jaki (born 11 May 1985 in Opole) is Deputy to the Seventh and Eighth Term Sejm; Opole Councillor during the Fifth and Sixth Term; Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice, First Deputy Minister of Justice and First Deputy Attorney General since 2015; Chairman of the Verification Committee for Reprivatisation since 2017.

Biography

On 18 November 2015, Patryk Jaki became Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice^[1][2] responsible for, inter alia, supervision over the Prison Service.^[3] He was also appointed Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Justice for the Implementation of the Electronic Monitoring System.^[4] He drafted an amendment to the existing law to prohibit depriving parents of the right of custody of their children on grounds of their bad financial situation.^[5][6] He has been entrusted with oversight over the establishment of the Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of the Polish People’s Republic.^[7] He is also the chairman of the Team for the Protection of Family Autonomy and Family Life in the Ministry of Justice.

Patryk Jaki is the chairman of the Central Council for Social Readaptation and Assistance to Convicts.^[8]

He initiated the establishment of the Verification Committee for Reprivatisation^[9][10] and, on 11 May 2017, became its chairman.^[11][12]

Patryk Jaki is the author of a registry of sex offenders in Poland, available on the website ms.gov.pl since 1 October 2017.^[13][14]

Patryk Jaki is the author of a government programme for the employment of prisoners, which has helped to increase employment among convicts by 50%.^[15][16] Patryk Jaki is the chairman of the Polish Council of Penitentiary Policy.^[17]

In 2017, Jaki stated that "stopping islamization is his Westerplatte".^[18] Later that year, he expressed support for torture as a method of justice, one of his most prominent acts as Deputy Minister for Justice of the Republic of Poland.^[19]

On 11 October 2017, Patryk Jaki received the “Polski Kompas” (Poland’s Compass)^[20] award granted by the Gazeta Bankowa monthly for his “fight against a reprivatisation mafia”.^[21]

Wprost has ranked him tenth on its list^[22] of 50 most influential Poles.^[23]

Personal life

On September 14, 2013, he married Anna Kuszkiewicz (in Cathedral Basilica of the Holy Cross, Opole).^[24] They have a son, Radosław (born in 2014), who was born with down syndrome.^[25] In his youth, he was allegedly leader of the Odra Opole ultras group^[26], a youth which gave him foundations carried into his political career.

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