Good State — Good Police i.e. The Concept of Measuring Effectiveness

Abstract

In order to ensure effective operation and sustainable development, it is necessary to develop and continuously operate a measurement and evaluation system which — focusing on specific areas — provides us with feedback on the content and changes of efficiency of the police. The Faculty of Law Enforcement at The National University of Public Service considers it as major and important task of its institutes, departments, research centres and future doctoral school to contribute towards the development of the modern police’s operational framework which is based on an interdisciplinary approach and an objective research-based knowledge. The efficiency of the police — as one of the biggest governmental organizations — is closely linked to the concept of good state. The current Hungarian regulation on the questions of the efficiency of the police does not have a developed methodology or it is out-of-date in its spirit and basically has a statistical approach. Taking all these into account, the scientific development of police efficiency cannot be avoided, and the revision of its criteria based on international trends is timely.