The legislator established the Military Counterintelligence Service as a special service responsible for matters of protection against internal threats to the state’s defence, security,, and combat capability of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland and other organisational units subordinate to or supervised by the Minister of National Defence. The Military Intelligence Service, in turn, was established as a special service responsible for matters of protection against external threats to the state’s defence, security and combat capability of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland and other organizational units subordinate to or supervised by the Minister of National Defence. Due to the fact that the tasks of both of these services are of great importance for the country’s defence, the status of officers of these services is also important, and in particular the stability of the service.