Armed Security Guard for Radioactive Waste Repositories

Abstract

The armed security guard and its predecessor organisations look back on a history of nearly
a century. It is the only special armed organisation in Hungary, which does not belong to the law
enforcement agencies or the army, its nature operates under civilian, strictly hierarchical and
controlled rules. Its cross-system function and mission for which it was created is unchanged.
Nowadays, the armed security guard, with a total number of nearly 7,000 people, protects activities, facilities and shipments that are extremely important for the operation of the state and the supply of the population.
Studying the organisations of the armed security guard and its predecessor, it can be stated that while in international and domestic relations, a number of researches deal with the history of critical infrastructure protection, the historical processing of the Hungarian organisational
antecedents has not yet taken place. In our study, we examine the operation of domestic radioactive waste repositories, which is little known to many, and the activities of the armed security guards who guard them.