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Police and Other Plural Policing Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe Facing COVID-19 Pandemic

The chapter revolves around concepts on plural policing and the (non-) cooperation between police and other security actors. First and foremost, there will be a mapping of the principal law enforcement actors in the selected Central and Eastern European countries and the police and security activities that were performed throughout the pandemic in managing the virus and whether they faced social discontent, in the form of public order. The authors also address the question whether plural policing in the form of 1 Plural Policing, Security and the COVID-19 Crisis ... 17 cooperation between security actors, work in favour of the public support for the police. Moreover, the authors have studied the question how individual governments of selected Central and Eastern European countries have sought to govern the pandemic through a security lens, whether top-down directives were imposed, and whether surveillance powers vis-à-vis citizens were expanded. How did the pandemic affect the trust levels between society and security providers is one of the leading questions in this chapter, with surprisingly different outcomes.

COVID-19, plural policing, pandemic, Central and Eastern Europe

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