Border Guard of Hungary

The Border Guard of Hungary (Hungarian: Határőrség Magyarországon) was the border guard of Hungary. Until 2006, it was under the then existing Ministry of the Interior, and from 2006 until its liquidation, it was subordinated to the Ministry of Justice and Law Enforcement, together with the police and the Penitentiary Service. Its main task was to control borders and detect crimes related to border crossing. Although its law enforcement nature has been strengthened in recent years and it is essentially a law enforcement agency, its dual legal status has been retained, meaning that in the event of war, some of its units, the so-called border patrol squadrons, are incorporated into the Hungarian Defence Forces under the constitution, and their control is taken over by the Ministry of Defence.