NCJ Number
143477
Date Published
1992
Length
70 pages
Annotation
A U.S. Federal prosecutor comments on Hungary's 1991 draft police law.
Abstract
His analysis focuses on legality and respect for human rights, police liability, public order and mass measures such as mass identity checks and crowd dispersal, and police dealings with individual persons. The latter encompasses identity checks, foreigners, administrative detention, arrest, interrogation, probation, property searches and entries, consent to search, search warrants, emergency searches, warrants of apprehension, inventory searches, and border searches. The comments also address subjective and objective justifications for police actions, information gathering, and investigation methods. Consideration is paid to the draft law's sections on surveillance and monitoring, undercover operations, entrapment, payment of informants, prosecution, court procedures, and evidence. Finally, the analysis looks at legal remedies and police use of force. Appendixes contain the draft police law and national perspectives on the crime situation in Hungary and emerging trends that indicate an increasing crime rate in the country.