‘Continuous development and learning at both organisational and individual level’: Interview with Prof. Dr. Péter Polt, Prosecutor General

Abstract

The prosecution service in our country has a history of just over a century and a half. Although its tasks, functions and roles have been distorted by the interests of power in certain historical periods, following the change of regime in 1989 and Hungary’s accession to the European Union, we can say that the prosecution service of today can be described as an organisation worthy of a democratic constitutional state, which is well adapted to the challenges of the digital age and which uses the results of both science and practice. In this month’s interview, Prof. Dr. Péter Polt, Prosecutor General, gave us an insight into the practice of implementing EU judicial cooperation, the IT developments at the Prosecutor General’s Office and the prosecution organisation, and the implementation of the legislative intentions of the 2017 Act of the Prosecutor General’s Office, which was actively drafted with the active participation of the Prosecutor General’s Office. Mr. Prosecutor General was interviewed by Valér Dános Editor-in-Chief and Csaba Szabó, Deputy Editor-in-Chief.