Hungary regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Hungary's criminal code contains several substantive offences. The Ministry of Interior, the Prosecutor's Office and the Criminal Police Department of the National Police Headquarters collect data on hate crime as part of general crime statistics.
The Hungarian Police does not have a special unit to record or investigate hate crimes. However, a list of hate crime indicators to help police detect and classify hate crimes more precisely has been developed by criminal justice bodies and civil society groups. The Hungarian Police does not have special forms or templates for recording, reporting on, or collecting data on hate crime cases. The protocol for each criminal offence is identical. When the protocol is recorded, all available information relating to the crime must be ascertained, including indicators of the crime, including bias motivation. Data is recorded in text format. The prosecutor's office does not have separate records on hate crimes.
The National Office for the Judiciary does not collect data on the specific motivation underlying the criminal offence, unless it specifically constitutes an aggravating circumstance by law. The exact number of hate crimes could only be determined if all the criminal cases were to undergo detailed analysis.
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ODIHR observes that the law enforcement agencies of Hungary have not recorded the bias motivations of hate crimes.