Textbooks for Police Officers’ Courses and Commissioned Officer Training

Abstract

“No one is born a policeman” – wrote Miklós Réde(i)y at the beginning of the 20th century, who did a lot to ensure that through his books and articles on police and law enforcement well-prepared police officers were performing their duties in Hungary. Just as many 19th- and 20th-century law enforcement experts picked up pens to make literature available for the education of police officers, inspectors, detectives, and investigators. The textbooks required for the specialized law enforcement courses were drawn first from the books on police subjects already published and after 1922 from works written by eminent legal experts and scholars researching police science who were the teachers of the course and were available to both students of the specialized courses and the officers performing enforcement in practice.