The National Protective Service and the Public Procurement Authority are committed to using all means to prevent corruption. To strengthen this, they have worked together in recent years to implement a number of strategic anti-corruption objectives.
In the framework of bilateral cooperation, the head of the Corruption Prevention Department of the National Protective Service together with other two colleauges paid a professional visit to the Federal Bureau of Anti-Corruption (BAK) of the Austrian Ministry of the Interior between 27-28 March 2025. The cooperation between the two organisations has a long history and the two parties have already shared their experiences on a number of occasions in order to successfully fight corruption.
On 20 February 2025, the Police Headquarters of Csongrád-Csanád County held an Integrity training and an interactive event called “Dual Café” based on the Police Café methodology for secondary school students participating in the dual training programme. The programme was held by the staff of the Corruption Prevention Department of the National Protective Service.
The Department for the Prevention of Corruption of the National Protective Service has prepared an information material for teachers, based on point 6.3 of Government Decision No. 1025/2024 (14.II.14.), which serves as a guide to help them in their work in shaping the values of pupils, promoting the development of integrity and moral responsibility.
The Monitoring Committee for the continuous monitoring of the implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (2024-2025) held its next meeting on 23 January 2025.
On 10 December 2024, the National Protective Service's Corruption Prevention Department organised the 1st Integrity Café in Budapest.
The National Protective Service of Hungary has been awarded an Award for the best anti-corruption initiatives. Representatives of the organisation received the award at the EPAC annual conference in Bucharest, in the presence of delegates from nearly 100 anti-corruption organisations from more than 30 countries.
Two years after the establishment of the Global Operational Network of Anti-Corruption Law Enforcement Agencies (GlobE-Network), of which the National Protective Service has been a member since November 2023, the activities and effectiveness of the network were evaluated at a four-day plenary meeting held in Beijing from 24 to 27 September 2024.
Police Café: this is a method where representatives of different field of expertise sit around a table over a delicious coffee and try to find solutions to the problems they are working on together, to the best of their knowledge and experience, in a constructive way.
In the first half of 2024 year, a total of 210 police patrol trainees and police officer candidates participated in 14 corruption prevention sessions organised by the National Protective Service. The police candidates learned about the relationship between personal and organisational values, responsibility, decision-making mechanism and corruption.