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Marek Papała
Marek Papała
Commander-in-Chief of Police
	In office; 3 January 1997 – 29 January 1998
Appointed by	Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, PM
Minister	Leszek Miller;
Personal details
Born	Marek Władysław Papała; September 4, 1959 (age 65); Pruchnik
Died	June 25, 2005 (aged 45); Warsaw
Service	Milicja Obywatelska; Police of Poland
Years of service	1979-1998
Rank	Nadinspektor (Chief inspector)

Marek Władysław Papała (September 4, 1959 – June 25, 1998) was a Polish police officer and Chief of Police from January 3, 1997, to January 29, 1998, who died as a result of a gunshot head wound from a silenced TT pistol on June 25, 1998.^[1] Officially, Papała died at the hands of a car thief turned state witness Igor L. Due to numerous inaccuracies the investigation was criticized by many former police officers and journalists.^[2]^[3]

The Papała contract killing is widely regarded^{[according to whom?]} as the most serious unsolved crime involving former communist security services SB, high-ranking members of the government, and the mafia, since Poland's transition to democracy in 1989.^{[citation needed]}