The Effect of Police Café on the Relationship between the Police and the Community. Part 2: Interviews

Abstract

The history of the Police Café methodology in Hungary has its 5th anniversary this year. More people are eager to know whether there are any effects of the events for the relationship between the Police and the community, and common local safety. In order to get a clear picture about how the participants themselves of the Cafés consider the Cafés and their effects, I carried out a survey about the opinion of 121 participants of 27 Cafés in Hungary between 2017 and 2018. The locations of the research were three towns in Baranya County, nine towns in Bács-Kiskun County and 8 precincts of Zugló, District 14th, Budapest. This present paper is the second part of the findings of the questionnaire-based survey in which 7–7 interviews were analysed of the participating police personnel and the civilians.