Two-Day Program for Attachés

Police Maj. Róbert Kalocsai, Acting Head of the Border Patrol Department at the Eastern Hungarian Border Police Directorate gave a presentation about the organizational structure of the Riot Police. He described the history and structure of the organization as well as its task system and special subunits, and also talked about the role of the Riot Police in handling the mass migration arriving along the Western Balkans route. In what followed, the members of the delegation attended EOD, weapons and motor vehicle displays.

On the second day of the program, the attachés and their spouses went to the Visitor Centre of the House of Parliament, and then were shown around the most beautiful spaces inside Parliament Building by a professional guide who accompanied them to the Upper House Hall and Lobby, the Grand Stairway, and then to the Dome Hall – the geometric center of the House and Hungary’s symbolic center –, where the Holy Crown and the coronation insignia are kept.

After taking a walk in Kossuth Square, the attachés proceeded to the MoD Institute and Museum of Military History, where Museum Educator Máté Balogh guided them through the exhibition entitled “Our Motto was Homeland and Progress". The visitors were introduced to Hungary’s military history between 1815 and 1866. At the exhibition, they saw the tricolor cockades of 1848, the national guards’ armbands, some of the pistols of the martyrs of Arad, the arms of service and flags of the 1848-49 Hungarian army, and then a representative collection of artworks related to the events of the 1848-49 Revolution and War of Independence.

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