A Side note to an investigation
Absztrakt :
As a liaison officer at the National Police Headquarters I have been dealing, as part of my job, with issues deriving from the relationship between Hungarian Roma/Gypsies and the police between 2003 and 2009. In line with the cooperation agreement between the Police and the Roma, my task was to keep contact with Roma organizations, to analyze conflicts between Roma and the police, to attract Roma youth to the police
forces and, on the basis of the cooperation agreement, to manage local and regional police authorities. During my studies at the defence and security policy major of the Zrínyi Miklós National Defence University (ZMNE), I got aware that it would be worth examining the situation of the Roma ethnicity within the European Union, and particularly in Hungary, as well as to study in details its security policy and law enforcement implications. I set the objective to research and scientifically study this topic within my doctoral studies at the Military Science PhD School of the ZMNE. This article is part of this effort. One of the basic tasks of a modern State is to guarantee social integration, i. e. to contribute to a civilized resolution of social conflicts. Therefore if a conflict situation is created by the dysfunctionality of a State organ’s operation, this has to be considered as serious perturbation of the State’s functioning. One of the most typical examples of this phenomenon was the anti-Gypsy attitude manifested on the internal webpage of the Police.