The Development of the Hungarian Police Training in the Period of the Dualism

Abstract

Following the Compromise of 1867, the creation of the technical education of the police appeared as a recurring demand. Although the Police Act of 1881, which permanently composed the nationalisation of the Budapest Police Force, gave the opportunity to a modern, efficient, metropolitan police came into existence, one of its significant condition, the professional preparedness of the police staff remained unsatisfactory. The fundamental structure of the police education was summarized by Chief Constable János Török in his organizational rules, published in 1893. Its practical experiences are to be found principally in the annual reports of the police bureau and in the police journals. By the years after the turn of the century, with the control of the professionalized instructor staff and the publishing of valuable textbooks which helped to acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge, the Budapest State Police reached the European level.