The Public Prosecutor’s Office is a state body charged with the prosecution of criminal offences. By its very nature, it is situated “between” the executive and the judiciary. The proper legal status of the Prosecutor’s Office should guarantee its effectiveness and resistance to political pressure. Over the last three decades, Poland has seen a series of reforms of the prosecution service. Formally, they were intended to ensure the implementation of the above-mentioned values, but in practice they were conditioned by the current interests of the ruling parties. The following paper discusses the main problems of these reforms, highlighting such phenomena as the legislator’s desire to break with the prosecutorial model inherited from the communist period and the lack of a clear vision of the model to be introduced. The paper critically analyses the content of these reforms as well as the views of Polish legal scholars, pointing out some mistakes in the process of formulating problems and searching for their solutions.