Bodyguard and Security 2.pdf

IBSSA official publication 2006Establishment of the National Mounted Services AssociationFrom the royal Canadian Mounted Police to the Kazakh horsemenThe National Mounted Services Association,under the short name of National Mounted Guardwas established in Budapest on 5 November 2005.The purpose of the new, non-political NGO is toprovide social support to crime prevention, publicorder, environmental and home defence in theform of non-armed activities.The association was established around the mainconcept that if hobby riders always ride cross-country,why can’t they do it in a target oriented fashion.Horse riding has become a fashion, almost amass sport in today’s Hungary. Riding mills keepgrowing around cities, offering sufficient ridingtuition as well as organised cross-country activitiesfor their riders. Riders regularly visit land and suburbanareas where order or environmental protectionagencies do not go at all or only very rarely. Byco-ordinating cross-country rides of riding millsand setting targets, the riding sport can providedirect assistance in managing the above problems.Riding mills came up with a suggestion primarilyin Budapest agglomeration whereby the crosscountryrides of their riders should be connectedwith environmental protection or land protectiontasks on a particular settlement, connecting pleasurewith use. The National Mounted Guard operatesbased on the objective of co-ordinating theseideas and intentions.On the basis of the environmental problems, theopportunity is obvious: local police forces and preventionpatrols can monitor mainly urban properties,but the countryside cannot be monitored bypatrolling with a vehicle. Suburban areas areexposed to various types of risks, the most considerableof which include theft and robbery in weekendhouses, farms and estates on remote locations,theft of produce and fruit on production land andorchards, illegal mass waste dumping around largersettlements and the spread of ragweed.Consequently, the most important task of theAssociation is to support the activities of defencepolice and security agencies, national guardingservices and municipalities operating in the territoryof the Republic of Hungary, in co-operationwith all public organisations and NGOs, as well assecurity companies interested in crime prevention,as well as citizens striving for creation, maintenanceand protection of security.A further objective of the Mounted Guard is toprovide a technical training and knowledge base forvarious mounted guard and patrol services in theterritory of the country with the help of whichcommitted riders can serve the public security andinternal order of the country more consistently andefficiently irrespective of the specific organisationthey belong to. For this purpose, we are developinga central education and training base, which willprepare riders and courses for the above objectivesin accordance with a training and qualification systemwhich is currently being developed.The Association develops co-operation with variousministries, primarily the Ministry of Interior,Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development,Ministry of Environmental Protection, County andNational Agencies involved in crime prevention, theNational Association of Hungarian NationalGuards and the Hungarian Hussar and MilitaryTradition Preserving Association for the purpose ofcrime prevention, public order, public security andenvironmental protection, as well as prevention ofdrug distribution and consumption. Co-operationshould also be developed with disaster protectiondirectorates and fire-fighting associations.For the purpose of fostering Hungarian ridingtraditions, developing the Hungarian riding cultureand flourish riding tourism, the Association thingsthat active participation is necessary in the implementationof the National Riding Programme.29