The corruption risks of police tasks related to state border in connection with the handling of world pandemic COVID-19

Abstract

Preventing and decelerating the spread of COVID-19 epidemic required fast and special measures in many areas of life. This meant a lot of operative interventions in the police tasks, many times by specific measures, most of which contained general tasks. Enforcing these was based on the specific decisions of police officers. By all means, no general rules could be regulated, which eventuated that police work became almost without external control. This entailed that the preparedness and integrity of police officers taking actions got major role. Police tasks in connection with handling of pandemic-related to state border, further increased the already high level of corruption risks, principally of police officers executing border policing and traffic policing tasks. In the future similar unforeseen situations can anytime happen. In my study I am analysing corruption risks emerging in such extraordinary period, in order to be able to handle them more efficiently. The integrity of police officers must be increased, and the number of corruption situations must be decreased. Besides, particular attention must be paid to the regulation of the obvious processes in order that the police personnel considers the interests of the Hungarian Police and of Hungary essentially in any situation.