The Recruitment and Training of Hungarian Border Hunters

Abstract

The number of the staff of the organisation responsible for general policing operations – in accordance with other measures taken in order to stop mass migration – must be strengthened by 3,000 additional units. In order to comply with the allotted headcount, an intensive recruiting campaign had begun – the Author shared valuable information about the methods and results of this process during his lecture at the scientific conference of the Hungarian Association of Military Science (Magyar Hadtudományi Társaság – MHTT). The Brigadier General – who acquired his experiences as the leader of border hunters troops during the mid-1990’s – explains the traditions of the Hungarian border hunters’ deployment from a historical perspective, the preparation of their current training and its results, the organization of which – as the Director of the Police Education and Training Center – is one of his top priorities. According to his lecture, this non-formal education is executed in a competence-based, modular fashion, which interlocks with Hungary’s public education framework as an elemental part, that guarantees the fulfillment of a lifelong career in law-enforcement to its recruits. Up to now, based on the experiences, the participants who finished the training are able to stand their ground during their time of service, and the program – which operates in a cyclic yet continuous fashion –, depending on the success of the recruitment campaign, is able to secure the appropriate staff to be deployed at law-enforcement organisations that are concerned in the matter of border protection.