The Contemporary Legal Regulation of the Police Service

The police service is one of the most important and traditional branches of the public services. The content and legal regulations of the police service has been largely changed. Frequent changes of the legal regulations of the police service are typical of the recent time. These changes reflect to a certain extent a comeback to some traditional concepts and institutions but, on the other band, there are efforts to reflect the knowledge on the social practice as well as foreign experience. The list of basic rights and libertis, constitutionally anchored, is an important background for the contemporary legal regulations of the police service and it also provides limits for interventions of the bodies of the police service into the civil sphere. The list basic rights is thus reflected in the appurtenant branches of legal regulations. A list of these branches of legal regulations is included in the article.