Tatrzańskie Ochotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe

Tatra Volunteer Search and Rescue (Polish: Tatrzańskie Ochotnicze Pogotowie Ratunkowe (TOPR)) is a partially volunteer and non-profit Mountain rescue organization in Poland, helping people endangered while in the polish Tatra mountains.

TOPR as one of the few in the world does not require a mountain insurance policy and does not charge payment for the rescue.

History

Registered on 29 October 1909 under its current name.

In 1952, Tatra Volunteer Rescue Service has been incorporated in the structure of the GOPR.

In 1991 it again became an independent TOPR, starting from the structures at the GOPR.

In 1999 TOPR was accepted as a member of the International Commission for Alpine Rescue.

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