| Marek Papała | |
| Office: | Commander-in-Chief of Police |
| Termstart: | 3 January 1997 |
| Termend: | 29 January 1998 |
| Appointed: | Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, PM |
| 1Blankname: | Minister |
| Birth Name: | Marek Władysław Papała |
| Birth Date: | 4 September 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Pruchnik |
| Death Place: | Warsaw |
| Blank1: | Service |
| Data1: | Milicja Obywatelska Police of Poland |
| Blank2: | Years of service |
| Data2: | 1979-1998 |
| Blank3: | Rank |
| Data3: | 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 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.