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Author: Kadar, Andras

Title: Control(led) Group - Final Report on the Strategies for Effective Police Stop and Search (STEPSS) Project (2008)

Summary: ID check is the most frequently used police measure in Hungary: on average, more than 1.5 million checks have been conducted in recent years. However, the practice of ID checks has not been analyzed so far. Therefore, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee sought to assess the typical grounds of ID checks and the efficiency of this police measure in the framework of a project financially supported by the European Commission’s AGIS Program and the Open Society Institute. It was also examined whether there is a discriminatory tendency regarding ID checks, namely if members of the Roma minority are ID checked in unjustified and disproportionate numbers compared to their non-Roma peers. The current report provides a brief description of the project methodology and the sometimes surprising results of the project.

Details: Budapest, Hungary: Hungarian Helsinki Committee, 2008. 84p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 16, 2011 at: http://helsinki.webdialog.hu/dokumentum/MHB_STEPSS_US.pdf

Year: 2008

Country: Hungary

URL: http://helsinki.webdialog.hu/dokumentum/MHB_STEPSS_US.pdf

Shelf Number: 121505

Keywords:
Gypsies
Police Discretion
Racial Discrimination
Racial Profiling
Traffic Stops (Hungary)