Semantic dualism and ambiguity of alert levels in the Anti-Terrorism Act

The long-awaited act of June 10, 2016 on anti-terrorist measures introduced the institution of alert levels to the Polish legal system, i.e. universally applicable law. Unfortunately, in this act we come across the single-sounding phrase “alert levels” in two senses; sometimes as a set of 8 degrees referred to in the act, but sometimes also as 4 alert levels: Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta. Moreover, in this act the abbreviation CRP (CRP alert levels) appears, which is not described anywhere. This article takes a closer look at the origins of today’s alert levels and presents the aforementioned identified issues: the semantic dualism of the term “alert levels” and the ambiguity of the “CRP” abbreviation. The author presents his proposed solutions to these problems in the summary.