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IBSSA official publication 2006www.ibssa.org

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From quantity to quality

Another year has passed. When we prepared our first publication forthe 10th jubilee of IBSSA, we believed that we could describe theoperation and relations of this diverse organisation.

We were wrong. Right after the publication, we felt that we were alot more than contained in the publication. This is how it was continued andlet me inform you that we feel that we are short of pages again.Although we have got a wider outlook than before, there is one thing,which is clearly obvious, and that is quality change.

I have already indicated in the first issue that state agencies, offi-cially engaged in this trade looked at non-governmental organisations first as an unwanted smallbrother. However, each year we managed to increase our role in areas where the professional stateagencies do not have enough attention, staff or energy. So, this growth was not easy: primarily wehad to increase our professional knowledge and prove our physical strength in various technicalsports competitions, too. The non-governmental organizations provided proof. A lot of interna-tional trainers taught local trainers in technical courses organised in various countries and mem-bers of our organisation faced the same load in physical trainings as official athletes in order to haveequal chances in open competitions with professional athletes.

This year we will definitely show what we are capable of, because in October 2006 the first body-guard world championships will be organised in Hungary. Following several months of prepara-tions, administrative barriers and natural disasters our original plans have changed and now thecompetition is coming to Central Europe, Hungary. We have not organised a world competitionlike that before, but we do hope that with a successful start, we can create a tradition in this verycomplex competition requiring intensive preparations and a lot of knowledge. To develop frommany small national competitions into a large competition for many nations and continents meansthe same quality transformation as IBSSA has replaced quantitative development with qualitativedevelopment, referring to the gained international positions indicated in the magazine. IBSSA istaken seriously these days. The international reputation of our organisation is reflected by the lead-ing positions of President Popper in international organisations that were not thought of a fewyears ago. It is clear that apart from personal merits, the professional quality development of ourown organisation have also contributed to these achievements. Perhaps it is the result of this quality devel-opment that there is internal competition in several countries, i.e. more and more non-governmental secu-rity organisations approach us, wishing to share the advantages and positions arising from interna-tional relations.

We hope that these two publications will help you understand this very wide internationalnetwork formed on a non-governmental basis, which is trying to help solve local problems thatcannot be resolved by the state of the relevant country at all or completely, with its own specifictools and opportunities.

György Rózsa B.editor-in-chief

IMPRINT DATA: This issue was produced by RBGY PR Agency, [email protected], upon request from IBSSA, www.ibssa.orgManaging director: György Rózsa B. • Chairman of Editorial Board: Dr. George Popper • Art director: Ildikó Németh • Graphic design, typography: Ákos Heltai

Photos: IBSSA archives, József Mészáros, Anna Popper, József Szaka • Head of secretariat: Erika MacsáriEnglish translation: SUPREX® Ltd. • Printed in Budapest, Hungary. Lombos Printing House Ltd.

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Date of Birth: 7th April 1947 –Szeged / Hungary

Citizenship: HungarianAddress: 1122 Budapest,

Goldmark K. u. 35. – HungaryPhone and fax: +36 1 214 1431Mobile: +36 30 231 8573E-mail: [email protected]

Profession:– Owner and General Manager of Multicontact Ltd.– President of Internetwork Inc. (USA)

Education:High school of Electro Engineering – BudapestUniversity of Political Sciences – Budapest(economics and philosophy)Professor, "Academician" and Active member of theInternational Informatization Academy"Senior Director in the field of Security" - diplomaissued by the Israeli College for Security andInvestigations 2000Ph.D. degree at International Budo Academy in“Sport diplomacy” 2001Ph.D. degree at Pro Deo University in the field ofManagement and Protocol in “DiplomaticProtocol” 2001

Languages:Hungarian, English, German, Russian, Spanish

Positions:- President of International Bodyguard and

Security Services Association (IBSSA)- Executive President of the International Budo

Academy (IBA)- „Knight of Grand Collar”, Lieutenant General,

Vice-President of the Government, andMinister of Home Affairs of the “SovereignOrder of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights ofMalta, Federation of Autonomous Priories”

- Grand Prior of theKnight Order forHungary (2006)and was awarded“Honour ofMerit” (2003)

- Lifetime Great-Grand Cross of the “InternationalKnightly Order of St. George” in 2005

- Grand Collar of the “Sovereign Order of Cyprus”– “Knights of Sword and Silence”

- Grand Chancellor and Grand Cross Knight ofthe “Hungarian Order”

- Minister and Envoy at Large of the InternationalParliament for Safety and Peace (IPSP) andDeputy Member of the Assembly of IPSP

- Chief Inspector of the Parliamentary SecurityPolice of International Parliament for Safety andPeace (IPSP)

- Lieutenant-general of the Hungarian NationalGuard

- Kentucky Colonel- President of the General Council of

International Union of Family Organisations –International Project Centre (IPC-IUFO)

- Representative of “Emergency Medical Rescue”London

- Member of the International NarcoticEnforcement Officers Association (INEOA)

- Honorary President of the Hungarian KarateFederation

- Vice President of the Hungarian Protocol Club- In 1998 honoured as a registered person in

„International WHO’S WHO of professionals”- Former Chief of Protocol of the Hungarian

Government- Ex high official at many International Political

and Sport Organization (WFDY - DeputyTreasurer, WKF - Treasurer, EKF - GeneralSecretary, WKPF - Executive President etc.)

Prof. George Popper received many high interna-tional and national awards.

President of IBSSA:

Lieutenant General prof. George PopperGrand Collar of Knight of Malta

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Preparations for IBSSA 11th Congress Miami / Florida January 10-18, 2006Prof. George Popper, president of IBSSA and Dr. MiklósVarga, member of IBSSA Education and QualificationDepartment met Mr. Richard Bradbury, IBSSA Floridacommissioner. Mr. Joe B. Mirza issued a Press releasefor the visit in relation to the 11th IBSSA Congress andthe 2006 AAU Karate competition. Rev. Philip J. Cascia,a honorary IBSSA member, could not travel to Floridadue to other responsibilities, but he stayed in contactthrough telephone.

During the visit, Mr. Edmund Kolby (Korea andVietnam ranger) was also contacted. He is currently amember of US Customs, and has been an honorary IBSSAmember since 1 February.

With the mediation of Mr. Kolby, numerous activesecurity companies have been contacted, whichindicated their intention to participate in the congress.Sir Jerry L. BRUMLEY, who was abroad at that time,also indicated by phone that he would actively par-ticipate in the organisation of the event.

COUNCIL OF EUROPE PARLIAMENTARYSESSION WITH A SIMULTANEOUS NGO(Non-Governmental Organisations) MEETINGStrasbourg, January 23-27, 2006

Apart from numerous other subjects, the main focus ison the role of NGOs and their co-operation with theCouncil of Europe and the EU.

Important news: IBSSA has been accepted in the‘Mission Europa’ organisation, which has a right toparticipate in the activities of the Council ofEurope. Prof. George Popper, president of IBSSA,took part in the programme as a member of‘Mission Europa’ delegation.

During the event, he established contact withthe international anti-terrorism organisation, seatedin the Ukraine, ”International Antiterrorism Unity”.

During his meetings with leaders of variousorganisations, Mr. Popper confirmed that at the endof September-beginning of October 2006, an inter-national conference will be organised in Budapestwith IBSSA on security for Mission Europa and CIPUIOF.

On February 13, 2006, the company of Dr. AbelLacerda, a Portuguese IBSSA member, Chelworth– Investments Ltd., organised in Lisbon a demon-stration of a fantastic new product in the worldof USA Sniffex company detecting explosives.

The following people took part in the programme:HRH Prince Michael Stewart of Albany – honorarypresident of IBSSAProf. George Popper –president of IBSSAProf. José Cosmelli – Country Representative of IBSSAfor Portugal and the new president of IBSSAHungarian Section, Csaba Kertész, who otherwise hasa company engaged in explosive detection and neu-tralisation employing approximately 70 former mili-tary and police experts.

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Prof. George Popper, IBSSA president, travelled toLisbon between February 11-13, 2006 to attend the‘Grand Council’ meeting of the Sovereign Order ofSaint John of Jerusalem, Knight of Malta, FAP.

During the visit, Mr. Popper met Dame Dr. MariaTeresa Costa da Macedo, President of Mission Europaand they discussed co-operation among IBSSA andMission Europa and CIP-UIOF in the area of security,fight against drugs and alcohol, with special consider-ation to the interests of families and children.

Mr. Popper was also received by Mr. Rui DanielRosário, cabinet chief of the Portuguese minister ofsolidarity.

Maria Teresa will soon travel to Macau, where herdaughter is a high-ranking government official and Mr.Popper has offered IBSSA assistance in anti-terrorismdrugs and violence and other education. Settlement,vehicle or information security could also be interest-ing topics.Dr. Maria Teresa Costa da Macedo

President of the International Project Centre (CIP)Executive Council, President of Honour ofUIOF/OMF, former Secretary of State of FamilyAffairs of the Portuguese Government, Counsellor ofthe Pontifical Council for the Family, Vatican

Mr. Edmund Kolby and Mr. George Popper

Dr. Maria Teresa Costa da Macedo and Mr. George Popper

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The President of IBSSA - ISF Dr. Rony Klugerhas been invited by President of AAU KarateProgram Mr. Joe B. Mirza, as official guest of theAAU (Amateur Athletic Union of the USA -National Karate Program) Nationals - 2005.

This years Nationals were held in the beautifulcity of Lakeland, Florida.

The AAU Nationals is a huge exemplary eventof over 6000 sportsmen gathering for a week. Thefirst two days are for education (trainings, lectures,meetings) and the rest of the days are for theNational Championships.

The trainings and the lectures have been exe-cuted by the world leading Master Teachers of theKaratedo -Mikami Sensei (Shotokan), KotakaSensei (Shito ryu), Mirza Sensei (Shotokan),Merriman Sensei and Kluger Sensei (Goju ryu),Saito Sensei (Shito ryu), Oshiro Sensei (Ryureiryu), George Kotaka, Elisa Au and ChristoferPinna world Champions and others. There wereover 1400 participants in the world class trainings.

During the event Dr. Kluger held several meet-ings with Mr. Joe B. Mirza IBSSA - ISF PanAmerican President, and reached agreement con-cerning full cooperation for hosting IBSSACongress, IBSSA - ISF world Martial ArtsConvention and AAU Nationals 2006 in

MIAMI, USA during June 2006.During the event Dr. Kluger held several impor-

tant meetings with senior Police officers concern-ing future development of IBSSA activities in theUSA and specially in Hawaii.

During the great event Mr. Joe B. Mirza wasconferred as Doctor of Philosophy - BudoLeadership & Education (on the photo).

Dr. J. B. Mirza, the legendary leader of AAUKarate Program published AAU and InternationalBudo Academy, will fully cooperate in a project ofcreating a full educational system to assist andstrengthen Martial Art Teachers in Pan America.

The President of IBSSA - International Sport Federation,Dr. Rony KLUGER visited the USA.

This year the cooperation between the DutchSecurity Agency and IBSSA was very positive.There were several training days and even

Dr. Rony Klugercame all the wayfrom Israel to teachKrav Maga.

Dr. FrankPhilipoom, a masterteacher for thepolice-department,has started a new cir-cuit for self defenceand Violance Aid.

More well-educated people have joinedIBSSA, including Bert Stekelenburg with hisATF-recherche Bureau. They all have a back-ground either in police or military service asspecialised officers.

That is why we also started a branch in theNetherlands Antillen (ARUBA) CaribbeanInvestigation & Consultancy Group. Martin F.Franke, specialised in investigations, risk consul-tancy, business intelligence, is in charge of thebranch.

Dr. Eric van de WallCountry Representative

of IBSSA for The Netherlands

Stronger connection

Mr. Joe B. Mirza and Dr. Rony Kluger

Mr. Martin F.Franke,Mr. Desmond Richardson,Mr. Jan Dijkstra

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Unfortunately, the IBSSA World

Championships scheduled for Miami will not

be held in the USA due to legal, visa and other

difficulties, but the International Organising

Committee has proposed the city of Sopron as

the new venue of the World Championships

Sopron has already held numerous events,

with a lot of support from the mayor of the city

and local order protection and security agencies.

A lot of entrepreneurs have also recognised

an advantageous advertising opportunity in

supporting the security industry.

The first IBSSA Bodyguard World Champi-

onships will be organised at the end of

October 2006, with individual and team com-

petitions for bodyguards.

Apart from shooting and special driving

exercises, we also plan situational tasks for the

competition.

As numerous other events have already

proven, many people are preparing for the

event and we have received inquiries about the

world championships from all parts of the

world.

Detailed information will be available at

IBSSA website in the second quarter of 2006,

describing the terms and conditions of online

application options as well.

Please turn to Dr. Miklós Varga for any

information about organisation and the

competition at the following email address:

[email protected].

IBSSA 1st Bodyguard World Championships 2006. Sopron, Hungary

International activities

- Professional bodyguard training in Kiev (Ukraine),- Protection of persons and facilities

(with highly trained human and technical resources) in Hungary

Contact:GAMMA GROUP Security Ltd.

member of the International Bodyguard and Security Services Association (IBSSA)

2011 BUDAKALÁSZ, József Attila u. 73. HUNGARYPhone/Fax: +36 26 341 539 , Fax: +36 26 540 288

e-mail: [email protected]

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The operating agenda for the World today com-prises the twin threats of Crime and Terrorism. Whilewe continue to tackle traditional crime and publicorder concerns, we also have to face the challenges ofcombating terrorism and ensuring InternationalSecurity. In confronting terrorism, we can ill-affordto be complacent and let out guard down.

The Jemaah Islamiah (JI) group which is linkedto the Al Qaeda network may have been disruptedbut it continues to pose a real threat to our region-al security. It is important for us to understand andappreciate the link between criminal activities andterrorism. Extremists and terrorist groups areknown to recruit from prisons and exploit criminalnetworks. Crime is often used by terrorists as ameans of supporting and funding terrorist activi-ties. The Madrid train bombings in March 2004were partially funded by a series of bank robberiesin France. Terrorist organizations are formidable

opponents as they are learning organizations. If weare not careful, we may just have to face the fullonslaught of these groups.

Terrorism is not new, and even though it has beenused since the beginning of recorded history it can berelatively hard to define. Terrorism has beendescribed variously as both a tactic and strategy; acrime and a holy duty; a justified reaction to oppres-sion and an inexcusable abomination. Obviously, alot depends on whose point of view is being repre-sented. Terrorism has often been an effective tacticfor the weaker side in a conflict. As an asymmetricform of conflict, it confers coercive power with manyof the advantages of military force at a fraction of thecost. Due to the secretive nature and small size of ter-rorist organizations, they often offer opponents noclear organization to defend against or to defer.

Following are some of the terrorist attackssince September 11, 2001:

Terrorist organizations are truly “learningorganizations”. From an organization, theybecame a movement to survive. As a movement,it is infinitely more difficult to track them down

as they have widespread popular support andmany sympathizers. We have to be careful toensure that terrorists and criminals do not gettogether, especially those who have some form of

Date Country Incident

Sept 11, 2001 USA Islamic terrorists hijack 4 US airliners. 2 are crashed into the twintowers of New York’s World Trade Centre, one targets the Pentagon in Washington. About 2,000 killed

April 11, 2001 Tunisia A suicide bomber attack on a synagogue on Djerba island in Tunisia kills 21.

Oct 12, 2002 Indonesia Bomb attacks on Bali discotheques claim 202 lives.Nov 28, 2002 Kenya 3 suicide bombers blow up a car outside an Israeli tourist hotel in

Mombasa, Kenya killing 18. May 16, 2003 Morocco 45 people die in 5 attacks by Islamists on Western and Jewish facilities

in Morocco.May 12, 2003 Saudi Arabia 35 people killed in bomb attacks on residential complexes in the capital Riyadh.Nov 20, 2003 Turkey Bombs explode outside British run buildings in Istanbul, killing at least 33 people.Mar 11, 2004 Spain 10 bombs explode on 4 commuter trains in Madrid, killing 191 people.May 29, 2004 Saudi Arabia 22 people, mainly foreigners, die in attacks in Saudi Arabia on an office

and apartment block.Aug 24, 2004 Russia 2 Russian airliners crash within an hour of each other in the south of Russia after

explosives are detonated on board. 90 confirmed dead.Sept 1, 2004 Russia Around 30 armed militants seized control of a school at Beslan in southern Russia,

taking 1,100 hostages. More than 300 children and adults are killed in the bloody end to the siege.

April 3, 2005 Thailand The blast at Hat Yai international airport, outside a supermarket and near a hotel. Attack in southern Thailand city left 2 people dead and about 75 wounded.

July 7, 2005 UK 4 London born men of Pakistani origin blow themselves up on London transport system killing 56 people and injuring 700.

July 23, 2005 Egypt At least 64 people killed in a series of bombings in the Egyptian holiday resorts of Sharm el Sheikh.

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Twin threats-crime and terrorism

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organization. We have to always stay one stepahead of them.

Now how are we supposed to do this? We haveto adopt a new framework that emphasizes asecurity mindset when we deal with criminalcases. We have to develop a sense of vigilance inevery officer, and be alert to possible securityimplications. Even with the best technology andequipment, it will not be enough to stop terror-ism unless we carry out policing with the appro-priate mental models.

We will have to adapt in the way we engagethe community in addressing safety and securityconcerns. In tackling the challenges of an increas-ingly complex and dynamic operating environ-ment, we cannot work alone. Policing will have tobe part of the entire problem solving processwhere multiple agencies, representing variousinterests, are involved. Problems can only besolved through the collaborative efforts of all par-ties involved, including the Police.

Events in the past few years have underlinedthe importance of resilience as we strive towardsour mission in building a safe and secure World.Since the September 11 attacks in New York andWashington, some events threw us into unfamil-iar territory, forcing us to grapple with unprece-dented issues, and race against time to mitigateproblems which were evolving dynamically.

When we dealt with Asian SARS, theIndonesian Tsunami disaster or the Pakistanearthquake, such shocks to our system cameunexpectedly without warning. As an organiza-tion, we had to react quickly, organize ourselvesand take control of situations outside comfortzone. We are proud to say that we have shownour mettle through these challenges.

Another cornerstone of the strategy to counterterrorist and other criminal threats and the effec-tive implementation of a graduated response sys-tem is the provision of reliable and timely intelli-gence. As terrorists have varied their method ofattack over the years, so also have they improvedtheir techniques and skills. To receive early warn-ing of possible attacks, to keep abreast of changingthreats and to remain technically ahead of the ter-rorist and other criminals capable of unlawful acts,it is essential that those responsible for security bediscerning consumers of intelligence. Early warn-ing of threats or possible attacks against the publicare vital, to ensure that all involved agencies areable to implement preparatory and preventivemeasures in a timely and cost effective manner. It

is essential that available resources are effectivelydeployed to meet the known threat. It is in thislatter regard that good intelligence is essential.

Ports and airports for instance were obvious tar-gets and have been secured by the International LawEnforcement officers. These are targets that theWorld anticipates that terrorists will go for. Howeverit is the soft targets that we should worry about: softtargets like the hotels and offices. There are so manyof these and we just can’t anticipate where the ter-rorist will be. So establishments like the soft targetsmust take proper precautions. At the same time, peo-ple should not be overly anxious. Life should go onwithout too much worrying about terrorism.Importantly, all must stand united regardless of back-ground, race and status to combat terrorism.

For example, a terrorist attack may be the fur-thest thing from your mind when a footballmatch goes to penalties, but one terrorism expertthinks the comparison is useful.

Professor Herbert Huppert of CambridgeUniversity believes the key to coping with an attackis not unlike that to winning a penalty shootout.People need to practice the drills and exercises againand again to remember them. This is how so manyBritons managed to survive the World War II air raids– by escaping to shelters such as underground tubestations as they had been taught. And why, in con-trast, many Iraqi civilians, left to their own devices,died in air strikes during the US led invasion.

People will behave differently depending on theleadership and the instructions they are given. Themost essential thing is to achieve communityinvolvement when dealing with terrorism and crime-a point Singapore authorities have raised in the pastto prepare the public for a possible attack. The bestway to involve the public is for the government to beas open and truthful as possible about the terroristthreats. It is only when we understand the psycholo-gy of the community; we can better equip ourselvesfor the consequences of any attack.

In conclusion, in a dynamic and rapidly changingworld, the twin threats of crime and terrorism willcontinue to be very real and alive. Therefore, thecooperation of every citizen together with thepolice force is essential and vital to our survival. Nomatter what the challenges that lie ahead and whatthe future holds for Global arena, I hope we will notgive up hope and lose our mettle in our battleagainst Crime and Terrorism.

Mr. Stephen CHEE Country Representativeof IBSSA for Singapore

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His Most Eminent Highness Dom Lorenzo OSB –

Metropolitan Primate of the American Catholic Orthodox

Church and Grand Master of the Sovereign Order of Saint

John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, Federation of

Autonomous Priories died on 14th December 2005 in a New

York’s Hospital, in the sequence of a massive brain hemor-

rhagic stroke.

Born in Madrid, Spain, on the 15th of May 1939, Lorenzo

Abruñedo Romero made his studies in the catholic seminar

and later, in 1973, went to America where he joined the

American Catholic Orthodox Church as a clergyman. Later

he became successively a Bishop, Archbishop and Primate of

his Church.

In 1994 His Beatitude Dom Lorenzo OSB, as

Metropolitan Primate of the Church, succeeded His

Eminence Archbishop Count Michael Paul Peter De Valich –

who had been for near 30 years leading the Federation of

Autonomous Priories – and, on 22nd January of the same

year, the Grand Council of the Federation in a meeting at La

Valletta, Malta, reconfirmed Dom Lorenzo as successor to

the vacant Great Magisterial See of the Federation.

During his 11 years as the Head and Chief of State of the

Federation, first as Regent and recently as Grand Master, His

Most Eminent Highness Dom

Lorenzo preformed brilliant

work, conducing it to new stage

of growth and development. In

fact it was under the regency of

Dom Lorenzo that several coun-

tries recognized the Federation as

a Sovereign State and its net-

work of Embassies was created to execute the humanitarian

program of actions of the Order. It was also in this period

that the Order grew in number and quality of knights and

expanded to other countries such as Hungary, Angola,

Romania, Guinea-Bissau, Czech Republic, Portugal, South

Africa, Latvia, and Israel among other, and that new institu-

tions of humanitarian nature, as FEMERAID were created.

Dom Lorenzo, the Grand Master, the Grand Knight has

departed, and after his departure the Knighthood in general,

and the Federation in particular, suffered a great loss.

The Man has departed but he did not die, for only those

who are forgotten die, and the Memory of Dom Lorenzo will

stay forever alive in all those who have known him.

Requiescat in Pacem.

Jose Cosmelli, Knight of Malta

Dom Lorenzo OSB in AETERNUM

We announce with deep sorrow the death of our

friend Sir John DORA – Knight of Malta, Honorary

Member of IBSSA, who died in tragic circumstances on

26th October 2005 in Budapest.

All friends joined his family in bidding farewell at a funer-

al service, which was held on Friday, 18th November 2005,

at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Pécs city, Hungary.

During the memorial service the following high-rank-

ing officials and members of international organisations

held their farewell speech:

– Prof. George POPPER – President of IBSSA made his

speech on behalf of IBSSA, while 8 members of the asso-

ciation were standing by the coffin as honorary guards.

– The commemoration on behalf of the Sovereign Order

of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights of Malta,

Federation of Autonomous Priories was held by Sir

Alexander OSZTER, while 8 Knights and Dames were

standing as honorary guards by the coffin.

– H.E. Dr. John KARÁSZY-KULIN (GBR) – Grand Master

of the International Knightly Order of St. George held

his farewell speech as well, while 2 Knights of the Order,

who are also members of

IBSSA, saluted at the cof-

fin.

Dr. Eriks GRINBERGS

(LAT) – Chairman of the

Legal Department of IBSSA,

Knight of Malta – came to

Hungary in order to attend the funeral.

Sir Csaba KIRÁLY, KM – invited all the present IBSSA

members, knights of the Sovereign Order of Saint John of

Jerusalem, Knights of Malta, F.A.P. and also the knights

of the St. George Order to have lunch in Szekszárd.

IBSSA plans to start a “John Dora” commemorative

medallion and initiated to establish the “JOHN

DORA Foundation” in order to support and help the

training of talented young bodyguards and to reward

successful bodyguards. Mrs. Katalin DORA PAPP –

daughter of Sir John DORA was requested to accept

the position of being the chairman of the Board of

trustees of the foundation.

(IBSSA HQ)

Final farewell from Sir John DORA18 November 2005, Pécs / Hungary

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Eriks Grinbergs, IBSSA co-ordinator inLatvia, chairman of the IBSSA Legal Department,legal advisor of the Latvian Ministry of SocialAffairs, became known within IBSSA in 2002through his merits in the successful organisationof the Martial Arts competitions held in thatyear. Exactly three years later, in the middle ofNovember, we talked to him about the results ofthis international event for Latvia.

‘It has brought success and recognition,’ answered

the young lawyer. ‘I do not mean myself primarily,

but our Latvian organisation. I do not mean it as crit-

icism, but between 1997 and 2002 none of IBSSA

leaders visited Riga, but since then the situation has

changed. That event was primarily dominated by

sports, as the best competitors of 12 federations of

Eastern fighting arts met in Riga. They gave presenta-

tions and lectures, competitions were organised and

both professionals and simple interested people dis-

covered IBSSA. This was the event which brought

together Latvian sports federations of various fighting

sports which had been working against each other

before, but then they realised that the main issue was

not which federation had the leading role as they had

mutual interests. IBSSA was an important catalyst in

this recognition. The audience, including official

organisations too, began to inquire about IBSSA activ-

ities. I dare say that the image of our association has

strengthened after Martial Arts in Riga.’

‘What is the situation of civil security organisations in

Latvia?’

‘More and more civil organisations are engaged in

security activities in Latvia, but their operation is dif-

ficult because the legal norms clearly defining the

framework of their activities are not fully elaborated

yet. The applicable EU norms have not been ratified

in Latvia either. We have only been a member of the

European Union for one year, our country has to ful-

fil a lot of law harmonisation tasks and this example

is one of them. We received a lot of assistance from

IBSSA for elaborating internal guidelines, which

makes our work easier. Naturally, there are organisa-

tions which do quite a lot for building security organ-

isations and relating sports organisations. Such an

example is PENTANO company, where the president

Genadij Seibutis and the advisor, Vladislav Kirilovskij

with Hungarian sports relations have very significant

international experiences. They contribute quite a lot

to the development of IBSSA organisation in Latvia.’

‘What is your relationship with the other Baltic states?’

‘There are primarily sports relations, mainly

through individual athletes or clubs. As far as I know,

the other Baltic States also phase similar problems as

Latvia. If we can help each other with our experiences,

hopefully we can solve our currently existing legal

problems very quickly.’

‘A bodyguard from Riga was awarded the diploma of

best bodyguard in the traditional international training

called SEC-tember. It could be a good sign for you for the

First Bodyguard World Championship to be held in Florida

next year. Are you training for this competition?’

‘Naturally, we intend to participate in this competi-

tion. However, we need internal competitions first to

select those who will represent us in the world champi-

onship. Unfortunately, we have no experience in selec-

tion, therefore we rely on the advice of Russian organi-

sations of IBSSA with international experience in the

professional preparation for the world championship.

Dr. Vladislav Kirilovsky, RegionalRepresentative of IBSSA for Baltic Republics:“Strengthening the IBSSA organisation in the BalticStates is an important part of my work. Of the three

countries, the organisation is strongest in Latvia, and

as a result of my work, approximately 90 new mem-

bers have joined the association. I am pleased to say

that the members of the Latvian association include

the minister of the former ministry of education and

sciences and the minister of the ministry of interior.

Unfortunately, no similar data are available in

Lithuania or Estonia yet, although our members and

organisations are active there too. In addition,

Vladimiras Lisicynas country representative works in

Lithuania, who was awarded the title of Instructor of

the Year of 2004 in t his year’s Congress. I am happy

to say that leaders of various Russian and Ukrainian

security organisations have become members of

IBSSA as a result of my relations with them.“

IBSSA in LatviaWe must establish legal norms

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When a foreign company chooses a Russian company forpartnership, it is useful to check how this future partnerfunctions. Of course, it is not indifferent from whom toreceive such information. Moreover, there is also a securityon daily basis, especially in decision making.There is a company in Moscow which assists in makingreasonable and valid decisions. The General Director ofthe “Management Information Systems” is VictorPetrovich Petukhov.

- Please, introduce your company – what is itsbusiness, for what purposes was it established?

- “Management Information Systems” was estab-lished in 1999 as a system integrator of the softwareassigned for decision making support. We engaged indevelopment and installation Situation Centers,Information and Analysis Centers, CompetitiveIntelligence Centers.

- What does competitive intelligence mean?- Competitive intelligence means the legal accu-

mulation of the data and information about com-petitors due to know how do they work, what aretheirs operating procedures and to use these methodsin own company. The part of the competitive intel-ligence is the benchmarking.

Competitive intelligence covers all methods,forms of activities, human resources, etc. But wehave a more global approach. For these solutions weproduce special software, but we ourselves do notengage in competitive intelligence procedures exceptsome special contracts we carry out.

We also supply Situation Centers for high author-ities – Presidents, Ministers, CEO of big companies.These Centers could be in different forms dependingon the client requirements: Situation ModelingComplexes; Complexes for Strategic DecisionSupport; Information and Analysis Centers (forexample, of the Minister); or CompetitiveIntelligence Centers of big entity. This is the mean-ing and intent of our business.

- Do you work for Russian or foreignclients or for both of them? Who is the maincustomer?

- We work in Russian market actively since ourpartners generally are the government entities.

Two Situation Centersalready function inGovernor’s Administ-ration in Sakha-Yakutia,Irkutsk. We have a solu-tion in Belarus; workwith some Russiaregions such Vologda,Penza Region (Central Russia), Kazakhstan,Uzbekistan.

We also will take part in a tender for the supplyof Situation Center to the Governor of Tiyumen.

- Is there any oil?- There is oil, gas, many other mineral resources. In

Tiyumen they construct their own Situation Center.As long as the client is a state, it is necessary for us totake part in tender together with other companies.Although we are probably the only company whichdistributes such a commercial-off-the-shelf productand have successful implementation. We supply theproduct and by its means the full multilateral moni-toring of mass media plus analysis of informationreceived form different sources are fulfilled.

- How are your activities known? Is somebodysearching for you or writing to you or vice versa?

- This is a complicated question. This kind of busi-ness is rather close. In a general case we do not adver-tise widely except our Web-site on the Internet. Andmailing is strictly direct. We work with the clientstate and they simply announce the tender for sup-ply of certain items, for example, supply of aSituation Center for the Governor. We monitor thisinformation and in accordance with the law we sendour documentation and take part in the tender.

- Concerning foreign countries, now we activelycooperate with the South-East region: Malaysia,Indonesia, Philippines. From other part we workwith CIS countries, as I said, Administration ofPresident of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, andBelarus. Another region is the Middle East. There wehave contact with Saudi Arabian authorities andhave proposed them a special center for security ofHajj (pilgrimage). We offer software to guarantee thesecurity of the pilgrimage process. This is a huge softand hard complex which allows to monitor the

Business and security

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situation – how many people visit pilgrimage sites,for what period of time, what happened during thepilgrimage – terrorist attacks, or if you probably haveheard about the breakdown of the Jamarat bridge –this tragedy happened because there was wrongdirection of crowd. We elaborate the solution how toavoid crisis situation, how to dispose security forces,ambulance, crossing points. This solution we pre-sented to the Saudi authorities.

- So, it is like pyramid, built from the infor-mation and on the top of it is an answer on spe-cific question?

- Yes. The basis is the information. We construct-ed our software with the simple module design: atthe bottom there is a common database where all theinformation enters - it doesn't matter in what form– text, audio, video, internet-files, any files existed.

- You said the basis. And then?- After that we deliver the modules. They are like

bricks. These bricks are settled “on the top” of thecommon database with the number needed by thecustomer. For example, we supply to the Governor amodule of electoral preferences, a module of socialhealth of population, a security module, a module ofeconomy etc. The Governor chooses several mod-ules and we deliver them to the Governor’sSituation Center.

- How many people work in this project?- Not so many. About 20 people are involved in the

work. Plus outsourcing in different cities, it becamemuch cheaper.

- Are you tracing the data?- We do not trace, we have mathematic models,

which allow showing all the information space. Onhuge screens the customer observes consolidatedinformation about what is happening in his region(ministry, company etc.). From a visualization pointof view we propose a very wide range of visualiza-tion tools. For example, Governor of Sakha-Yakutiaordered visualization of the situation in the form ofcolored barometers where the situation is imaginginteractively in colors – from normal green to dan-gerous – red, and the arrow points the evolution ofthe situation. Of course, when the pointer moves tored the Governor immediately calls the experts, thestaff and asks what happened. After that he or hisexpert can trace down by indexes and other criteria

and see what happened exactly and who is responsi-ble for the formation of the crisis situation.

- You make the diagnosis like a doctor..?- We forecast, besides we forecast, the situation by

way of a modeling experiment for certain period ahead,for instance, for a year. The experiment itself could bean extrapolation where the curve is moving up ordown and we can predict with some accuracy that thesituation would progress in a certain direction.

We also carry out variation experiments where weask “What happens if..?” The group of experts usesour tool - and we have some sliders as in equalizer –and move this slider trying to answer, for instance,what happens if the government lowers the dona-tions for the some stratum of population or makesany other change.

- And will you offer the ready-made solutionfor them?

- We give them technique, methods, procedures sothat they will watch the situation forward and fromdifferent sides.

- Do they listen to your advice during the des-icion making?

- Oh yes, the staff in Irkutsk, Belorussia, Sakha-Yakutia and others – all the use our solutions.

- The President can have many advisers, theygive him wonderful suggestions, but he doesn’tbelieve them…

- Understand your question and try to explain it inpractice. The adviser is an engaged person. We collectthe information from a wide range of sources includ-ing experts and use special tools and methods to levelthe expert’s approach. Besides, we give them a tool touse their own methods without any changes in soft,i.e. without additional use of the programmers.

- Does generalization of your advices repre-sent an objective solution?

- There is no objective solution; there is a solutionclose to objective. In reality there is no objectivenessas soon as there is no truth. There is something closeto the truth. We offer our solutions, however thefinal decision makes the chief executive, VIP. We onlygive him a tool, learn his experts. But he himselfbears responsibility for the decisions.

- This is a big responsibility indeed! Or viceversa, your organisation doesn’t bear responsi-bility since the decision makes other person?

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- As you understand, in such a hard case the prac-tice and the methods are very important. The firstCenter was installed at 1999 to the President ofUkraine Mr. Kuchma (we have another company’sname but the same development engineers and con-structors). At this period our methods showed 97%hit that in general was incredible. The situation wasthe same: we answered on the inquiry from thePresident election authorities, whether it is necessaryor not to spend of 20 millions to increase his rating.And he asks to our Center this question…

- Not so little money…- Yes, this is a huge amount! He said, if I throw in

this money? We begin to compute on our models andthe answer that it is not necessary. If you push thismoney to the election the situation wouldn’t change.There were a lot of competitors, about 15 people…We said – whether you make it or not, it wouldn’t bebetter. He saved the money, his rating became thesame, he won, and our solution showed efficiency.

- That means this method was right and theusage was so right.

- Yes. Usually exit-polls, interrogations, ratingsgave less accuracy.

- Do you penetrate on the market easily?- No. It is hard to conclude the contract. Our

product could be lobbied through, that is the way some

lobbyists are involved. These are high ranking peo-ple on the level of ministers, authorities in adminis-trations of the presidents who are interested inmaking our product work. You see, they will workthemselves on our Center.

- How did you meet IBSSA and what oppor-tunities can you see for cooperation?

Some years ago I was introduced to IBSSA man-agement by Mr. Morozov, IBSSA Representative inRussia.

After a while I offered to IBSSA the creation of aspecial information system that links all interestedorganisations – members of IBSSA like a net on thebasis of our software. This system can collect infor-mation and conduct analyses in the interests of theclients of these organisations and theirs clients. Thissystem can fulfil inquiries from different countriesand can model and simulate political, economic,social, security, aniterrorist problems of these coun-tries. The Center itself can be settled in the CentralEurope - Czech Republic or Hungary.

I believe that the Special Analysis and InformationCenter acting under the auspices of IBSSA – themost authoritative and prestigious association –which can assist in solving problems of Europeancommunity, will essentially raise its significance andconsequence.

IBSSA Slovenia is at first glance a small partner in a bigfamily of IBSSA organization. But importance is notmeasured with size. With all activities, education andline of work we contribute to regional stability andsecurity.

Although Slovenia is a member of the EU andNATO that does not mean we can leave our securityonly in their hands. IBSSA Slovenia filled gaps in thearias of private and personal security that are most vul-nerable. That is private safety. Our bodyguard trainingcentre is an official IBSSA representative for region ofex Yugoslavia (Croatia, Federation of Bosnia andHerzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia).This means that all candidates for bodyguards must gothrough very hard training and education accepted andapproved by IBSSA. It was founded in February 2002under the leadership of Mr. Bogdan Vukosavljevic,

MA Security and Terrorism. For the past four years hehas been chief instructor for VIP tactics and security inIBSSA training centre Slovenia and other centresaround Europe. More than hundred bodyguards fromdifferent countries graduated in our centre. Most ofthem are successful in their business. Requests for ourbodyguards are high. They are known to be very pro-fessional and well trained. Our costumers are usuallyhigh profile persons such as politicians, actors andsingers. In the past few years we organized severalbodyguards’ courses in one year. In 2006 we will organ-ize five basic level courses in March, May, June,October and November. Advanced level courses will bein April and October.

Mr. Bogdan VukosavljevicCountry Representative of IBSSA for Slovenia

IBSSA SLOVENIASmall partner in size, big member in IBSSA organization.

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Dr. Rony KLUGER (Israel)Master Teacher of Self Defenceand Martial ArtsDipl. no. – 002

Mr. Florentin MARINESCU(Romania)Master Teacher of Self Defenceand Martial ArtsDipl. no. – 003

Mr. Silvere SALVISBERG(Switzerland)Master Teacher of VIP ProtectionDipl. no. – 004

Mr. Pietro CASELLA (Italy)Master Teacher of Self DefenceDipl. no. – 005

Dr. Miklós VARGA (Hungary)Master Teacher of Martial ArtsDipl. no. – 006

Mr. Zeev GEFEN (Israel)Master Teacher of Security SciencesDipl. no. – 007

Mr. Roberto GOBBI (Italy)Master Teacher of ShootingDipl. no. – 008

Mr. Roberto De RONZI (Italy)Master Teacher of Driving, TacticalSelf Defence & Combat BatonDipl. no. – 009

Mr. Károly SIMON (Hungary)Master Teacher of VIP Protectionand Combat ShootingDipl. no. – 010

Mr. Ilio SEMINO (Italy)Master Teacher of Escorting &Self DefenceDipl. no. – 011

Dr. Giuseppe MORABITO (Italy)Master Teacher of PsychologyDipl. no. – 012

Dr. Marko NICOVIC (Serbia andMontenegro)Master Teacher of Anti drugsSciencesDipl. no. – 013

Dr. András CZAPÁRY-MARTINCSEVICS (Hungary)Master Teacher of Security andSafety TechniqueDipl. no. – 014

Mr. Jesus A. GUERREROGUTIERREZ (Venezuela)Master Security ManagerDipl. no. – 015

Mr. Juan Carlos ANGULO(Venezuela)Security ManagerDipl. no. – 016

Mr. Stephen CHEE (Singapore)Master Teacher of Self DefenceDipl. no. – 017

Mr. Frank PHILIPOOM(Netherlands)Master Teacher of Self DefenceDipl. no. – 018

Mr. János LAUB (Hungary)Master Teacher of EscortingDipl. no. – 019

Mr. Gianfranco CAMERINI(Italy)Master Teacher of Martial ArtsDipl. no. – 020

Mr. Giovanni MONTESANTI(Italy)Master Teacher of Martial ArtsDipl. no. – 021

Mr. János BARÁTKI (Hungary)Master Teacher of VIP Protectionand ShootingDipl. no. – 022

Mr. Dave BEIJ (Netherlands)Assistant Instructor of ShootingDipl. no. – 024

Mr. Tibor ZUBONYAI (Hungary)Assistant Instructor of SelfDefenceDipl. no. – 025

Mr. Alain BROUDIC (France)Instructor of Self DefenceDipl. no. – 026

Miss Erika DEBRECENI(Hungary)Instructor of Self DefenceDipl. no. – 027

Mr. János LAUB (Hungary)Instructor of Self DefenceDipl. no. – 028

Mr. Attila SIMON (Hungary)Instructor of Self DefenceDipl. no. – 029

Mr. Jenô Csaba GREFF(Hungary)Instructor of Self DefenceDipl. no. – 030

Mr. Imre GYÔRFI (Hungary)Instructor of Self DefenceDipl. no. – 035

Mr. Edward STONE (Scotland)Master Teacher of Anti TerrorStudiesDipl. no. – 037

Dr. Oliver L. ROZSA (USA)Master Teacher of ShootingDipl. no. – 040

Mr. István SZÓRÁDI (Hungary)Instructor of Tactical Self DefenceDipl. no. – 041

Mr. Géza MATHEY (Hungary)Instructor of ShootingDipl. no. – 042

Dr. Milovan LAKUSIC (Serbia andMontenegro)Security Manager and Instructorof Self DefenceDipl. no. – 043

Mr. Jagos DJUROVIC (Serbia andMontenegro)Instructor of Shooting and ValueSecurity TransportationDipl. no. – 044

Mr. Nebojsa ILIC (Serbia andMontenegro)Instructor of VIP Protection andDrivingDipl. no. – 045

Mr. Sasa GLISOVIC (Serbia andMontenegro)Instructor of VIP ProtectionDipl. no. – 048

Dr. László REINDL (Hungary)Master Teacher of Protocol andAmmunition ExpertDipl. no. – 049

Mr. Mindaugas LETUKAS(Lithuania)Master Teacher of Kokoro su ryuAikidoDipl. no. – 050

Mr. Ottó SIMONYI (Hungary)Master Teacher of CombatShootingDipl. no. – 051

Mr. Konstantin LOMIDZE(Netherlands)Assistant Instructor of SelfDefenceDipl. no. – 052

Mr. Freek HILLIGER(Netherlands)Assistant Instructor of SelfDefenceDipl. no. – 053

Mr. Stefan KURILLA (Slovakia)Assistant Instructor of SelfDefenceDipl. no. – 054

Mr. Jurgen KUIJTEN(Netherlands)Assistant Instructor of DrivingDipl. no. – 055

Mr. Anthony CARLIN (Scotland)Instructor of Combat DrivingDipl. no. – 056

Mr. Anthony CARLIN (Scotland)Instructor of Combat ShootingDipl. no. – 057

Mr. Gábor RÓTH (Hungary)Assistant Instructor of CombatShootingDipl. no. – 058

Mr. Zsolt PIPICZ (Hungary)Assistant Instructor of CombatShootingDipl. no. – 059

Mr. Stefan KURILLA (Slovakia)Assistant Instructor of CombatShootingDipl. no. – 060

Mr. Frank PHILIPOOM(Netherlands)Master Teacher of Martial ArtsDipl. no. – 061

Mr. Zsolt KERESZTESI(Hungary)Instructor of Self DefenceDipl. no. – 062

Mr. Attila KÔVÁGÓ (Hungary)Teacher of Combat ShootingDipl. no. – 063

Mr. Gyula SIRA (Hungary)Senior Instructor of Self DefenceDipl. no. – 064

Mr. János HÜLBER (Austria)Senior Instructor of Self DefenceDipl. no. – 065

Mr. Gyula SIRA (Hungary)Senior Instructor of CombatShootingDipl. no. – 066

Mr. János HÜLBER (Austria)Senior Instructor of CombatShootingDipl. no. – 067

Official list of registered Master Teachers and Instructors of IBSSA

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The 10th Congress of the InternationalBodyguard and Security Services Associationwas held in Zlin, the head office of IBSSA CZon 19 March 2005. The Jubilee Congress wasattended by nearly 70 representatives of 30countries, although heavy snow created diffi-cult travelling conditions for those going to theCongress.

The IBSSA courses, the shooting competitionand the seminars organised for Sunday were allheld in Graddoland on 18 March. TheBodyguard Situational World Championshiporganised for 20 March was cancelled because ofthe snow and few entries which were perhapsrelated to the snow.

Professor George Popper, President of theAssociation opened the 10th Congress ofIBSSA. He announced that numerous high-ranking officials and IBSSA representativeswelcomed the participants of the Congress inletters, including– H.R.H. Michael James Alexander Stewart

of Albany (SCO – honorary president ofIBSSA)

– His Beatitude Dom Lorenzo O.S.B. – regentof the ‘Sovereign Order of Saint John ofJerusalem, Knights of Malta, F.A.P.’, honorarymember of IBSSA,

– Reverend Philip J. CASCIA – honorary vicepresident of IBSSA for the American conti-nent,

– Mr. Stephen CHEE – vice president of IBSSA,– Dr. Fritz WENDLAND – honorary founding

member, president of World KarateConfederation (WKC),

– Dr. Marko NICOVIC – vice president ofIBSSA, 43rd president of the InternationalNarcotic Enforcement Officers Association(INEOA) in 2004.

At the beginning of his report, the president ofIBSSA noted that he did not only have to cover

the activities of one year, but also their activitiesfor the last ten years. He presented the OfficialIBSSA Jubilee Publication, containing themost important documents of theAssociation from the beginning. All materi-als and official documents are public and may beviewed on www.ibssa.org website, and the rep-resentatives of the Congress also received thedocuments on a CD.

In addition to the official IBBSA publication,Detector Plus and the Martial Arts Magazinealso cover the activities of InternationalBodyguard and Security Services Associationregularly and extensively.

The IBSSA chairman briefly described themajor events held in 2005 and 2006 and gave abrief presentation about the financial positionof IBSSA.

Dr. Rony Kluger, general secretary of IBSSAreported on the activities of IBSSA InternationalSports Association to the Congress.

Following the reports evaluating the activitiesof the committees, the chairman of theCongress – Dr. Eric Van de WALL – presentedthe proposals of the Executive Committee toelect IBSSA officials:– Honorary member

Dr. Nicholas V. PERRICONE (USA),– Honorary member Dr. Chief Quaestor Anghel

ANDREESCU (ROM) – foreign minister,– Dr. Constantin BUZATU (Romania) was

elected chairman of the Executive Committee.– Zeev GEFEN (Israel), Dr. Domenico

SAMMARUCO (Italy) and Imtiaz ABDULLA(Republic of South Africa) became vice chair-men of the Executive Committee.

Officials were also elected for the vice chair-men’s position of various sections of IBSSA ISF(International Sports Federation). LjubomirVRACAREVIC was elected as the head ofAIKIDO section.

IBSSA 10th CONGRESS(Zlin, Czech Republic, 18-20 March 2005)

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Before closing the Congress, Prof. GeorgePopper described the events and their venues forthe forthcoming period:– IV. ‘SEC-tember’ International Spcial Security Training

Course in Budapest between 20-24 September 2005.– 11th Congress (26 June – 2 July 2006, Florida / USA)– 4th World Martial Arts Championships and Festival

during the 11th Congress of IBSSA in the USA– 12th Congress (2007 – Belgrade / Serbia and

Montenegro)– 13th Congress (2008 – Italy)– 14th Congress (2009 – Arad / Romania)

After the Congress, IBSSA leaders held a pressconference attended by journalists from nationaldaily papers and security journals. At the same time,various IBSSA committees held their meetings.

Following the lunch break, the 10th Congressof IBSSA continued with an open general meet-ing chaired by Professor José Manuel Costa daVeiga Cosmelli, chairman of the National IBSSAOrganisation in Portugal.

Within the framework of the award ceremo-ny, the following IBSSA members and leadingofficials collected IBSSA plaques and diplomas.

The following people received CommemorativePlaques of the 10th Congress:– H.E. Prof. José Manuel Costa da Veiga

COSMELLI (Portugal)– Dr. Paul G. HÖGLUND (Sweden)– Dr. Leif ALMÖ (Sweden)– Mr. Bert E. DOMBI (Switzerland)

The IBSSA ‘HALL OF FAME’ award was dis-tributed for the first time.

The following people entered theHALL OF FAME OF SECURITY:– Dr. Constantin BUZATU, GOKM (Romania)– Dr. Alexandr CACH, KCM (Czech Republic)– Dr. Levente GYENES, GOKM (Hungary)

The following people entered theHALL OF FAME OF SPORTS:– Dr. Paul HÖGLUND (Sweden)– Dr. Joseph POLYÁK (Australia)– Mr. Vladislav KIRILOVSKIY (Latvia)

Prof. Geogre Popper, IBSSA president, expressedhis thanks to the host of the Congress and hand-ed over an IBSSA plaque, diploma and a fabulouswooden chess set to Dr. Alexandr CACH.

The following members were also awarded inthe following categories:– Mr. Vladimiras LISICYNAS (Lithuania)

‘Instructor of the Year, 2004– Mr. Csaba KERTÉSZ – Power Shield Kft.

‘Security manager of the year, 2004’– MICRORAAB Inc. ‘Technical Equipment for

Security of the Year, 2004’– Mr. György RÓZSA B. (Hungary) ‘Organiser

of the Year, 2004’– Mr. Remo GRASSETTI (Italy) ‘Master Teacher

of the Year, 2004’

Dr. Rony KLUGER, KM (ISR) – general secre-tary of IBSSA and dean of International BudoAcademy, gave IBA awards with the diplomas tothe following people:– Dr. Eric Van de WALL (The Netherlands)– Dr. Leif ALMÖ (Sweden)– Dr. Frank PHILIPOOM (The Netherlands)

Prof. José Manuel Costa da Veiga Cosmelliproposed that the participants should stand upcommemorating IBSSA members deceased inthe previous years concluding the Congress.

To close the Congress, the chairman expressedhis thanks to the Czech and IBSSAInternational Organising Committee membersfor the successful and great work:

Czech Organising Committee:Ms. Linda KRENOVSKAMr. John PateMr. Zdenek CÍK

International Organising Committee:Ms. Erika MACSÁRIMrs. Éva NAGYNÉ BALOGH Mr. Ádám POPPER

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1 ALGERIA2 ANDORRA3 ANGOLA4 ARGENTINA5 ARMENIA6 ARUBA7 AUSTRALIA8 AUSTRIA9 AZERBAIJAN10 BANGLADESH11 BELARUS12 BELGIUM13 BENIN14 BOSNIA and HERZEGOVINA15 BRAZIL16 BULGARIA17 CAMEROON18 CANADA19 CHINA20 CONGO (Brazzaville)21 CROATIA22 CURACAO23 CZECH REPUBLIC24 DENMARK25 ECUADOR26 ENGLAND27 EGYPT28 ESTONIA29 FINLAND30 FRANCE31 GABON32 GAMBIA33 GEORGIA34 GERMANY35 GREECE36 HUNGARY37 INDIA38 IRELAND39 IRAN40 IRAQ

41 ISRAEL42 ITALY43 IVORY COAST44 JAPAN45 JORDAN46 KAZAKHSTAN47 KUWAIT48 LAOS49 LATVIA50 LIBYA51 LITHUANIA52 LUXEMBOURG53 MACAU54 REPUBLIC of MACEDONIA 55 MALAYSIA56 MALTA57 MAURITIUS58 MEXICO59 MOLDOVA60 MONACO61 MOROCCO62 NETHERLANDS63 NEW ZEALAND64 NORTHERN IRELAND65 NORTH KOREA

66 PAKISTAN67 PANAMA68 PHILIPPINES69 POLAND70 PORTUGAL71 QATAR72 REPUBLIC of SOUTH AFRICA73 ROMANIA74 RUSSIA75 SAO TOME and PRINCIPE

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IBSSA in the World

76 SAUDI ARABIA77 SCOTLAND78 SERBIA and MONTENEGRO79 SINGAPORE80 SLOVAKIA81 SLOVENIA82 SOUTH KOREA83 SPAIN84 SWEDEN85 SWITZERLAND

86 SYRIA87 TAIWAN (REPUBLIC of CHINA)88 TANZANIA89 THAILAND90 TRINIDAD and TOBAGO91 TUNISIA92 TURKEY93 UKRAINE94 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES95 UNITED KINGDOM

96 UNITED STATES of AMERICA97 UZBEKISTAN98 VENEZUELA99 VIETNAM100 WALES

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On the 20th September (Tuesday) at 18.00 the OfficialOpening Ceremony of the training course took place at theHeadquarters of Adyliget Law Enforcement College. Prof.George POPPER, GCKM (HUN) – President of IBSSA wel-comed all participants and introduced the Master Teachers,Instructors of the training and the present high-rankingIBSSA officials and representatives. After his speech thePresident called upon dr. András HEGEDÛS (HUN) – Chief

of the Crime-Prevention Department of the Ministry ofInterior to hold his speech and open the training courseofficially. Dr. András HEGEDÛS attended the OpeningCeremony in order to represent the Main Patron of thisevent: Dr. Mónika LAMPERTH – Minister of the Interior.

From 21st September (Wednesday) until 23rdSeptember (Friday) the students took part in the follow-ing daily programs:

According to the experiences of the special training courses,held in the last 3 years, IBSSA Headquarters organised theADVANCED training seminar of security experts and body-guards – with special regard to counter-terrorism – between20 – 24 September 2005 in Budapest / HUNGARY. This specialtraining course was the main event of the year in the region withthe support of the International Training Centre of theHungarian Ministry of Interior, the Hungarian Crime-Prevention

Institute (BM – RBI), the Adyliget Law Enforcement College.Many qualified bodyguards, high-ranking officers

from special units of the police and the army, and evenInstructors of the Adyliget Law Enforcement College par-ticipated at the training. The attendees and instructorsarrived from Austria, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Italy,Latvia, the Netherlands, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro,Slovakia, Slovenia, Singapore and the USA.

Master Teachers:Dr. Rony KLUGER (ISR) Master Teacher of Self Defence and Martial Arts (Krav Maga)

General Secretary of IBSSA, Dean of International Budo AcademyDr. Miklós VARGA (HUN) Escorting and VIP Protection

Member of Education and Qualification Department of IBSSAMr. Attila FARKAS (HUN) Special Security Expert and International Bodyguard

Member of VIP Protection and Security Department of IBSSADr. József VÉGH (HUN) Lieutenant colonel – Hostage negotiating expert of the FBI Academy

Instructor of Int. Training Centre of the Hungarian Ministry of InteriorMr. Ottó SIMONYI (HUN) Shooting Instructor of the Hungarian Police Department

9 times Police World Champion in combat shootingMr. Lajos TURAI (HUN) ret. bomb-disposal and explosives technician Bomb-related studies

Instructors:Mr. Stephen CHEE (SIN) Combat baton, ASP (Viper) training, Vice President of IBSSAMr. János HÜLBER (AUT) Driving techniques, Driving expert, Senior Instructor of Self-DefenceMr. Gyula SIRA (HUN) Instructor of Combat Shooting, Security expertMr. Attila KÔVÁGÓ (HUN) Shooting Instructor, Police Instructor of shooting in MakóMr. Roland LAJOS (HUN) Self Defence Instructor

MAIN PATRON OF THE EVENT:Dr. Mónika LAMPERTH – Minister of the Interior

PATRONS OF THE EVENT:Prof. George POPPER, GCKM – President of IBSSADr. József BEREGNYEI, board-guard colonel – Director of Adyliget Law Enforcement CollegeDr. Valér DÁNOS, ret. police brigadier-general – Director of BM-RBI

The participants were ready to start their training in 5 groups, with the following lessons in rotation:- Combat Shooting with Mr. Ottó SIMONYI and Mr. Attila KÔVÁGÓ- Driving techniques and escorting with Mr. János HÜLBER and the 2 rally driver instructors- VIP protection in practice at the FBI Academy with the assist of Mr. Attila FARKAS and Dr. Miklós VARGA- Self-defence / Krav Maga with Dr. Rony KLUGER and Mr. Roland LAJOS- Bomb-related studies with Mr. Lajos TURAI- Lecture on using the combat baton with also some practice with Mr. Stephen CHEE

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IV. “SEC-tember”IBSSA International Advanced Counter Terrorism Training Course20 – 24 September 2005, Budapest / Hungary

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The training course was highlighted by the HungarianATV and representatives of the media (“Harcmûvészek”Magazine, Detektor Plusz Magazine and the OfficialIBSSA Magazine: Bodyguard & Security). An IBSSA offi-cial video record was also taken during the training courseby the Official Video and Photographer Team of IBSSA.

After the Instructors’ qualification the official

Closing Ceremony of the event took place at thePETNEHÁZY COUNTRY CLUB. Prof. George POPPER,GCKM – President of IBSSA and Dr. Rony KLUGER(ISR) – General Secretary of IBSSA handed over theIBSSA Certificates of Participation to the attendees ofthe training course. The IBSSA Master Teachers’ Teamalso congratulated all participants.

Thanks to Master Teacher Miki VARGA and AttilaFARKAS, Master Teacher Ottó SIMONYI and his staff, andalso Instructor Csaba KERTÉSZ and his staff for their excel-lent work and care for the success of the IV. SEC-tember.

Special thanks to the members of the OrganisingCommittee for their hard work and especially thanks to Headorganiser Miss Erika MACSÁRI and Mr. János HÜLBER forthe great and successful organisation of the course.

Of course we congratulate Prof. George POPPER, IBSSAPresident for the great event and his successful leadership.

At last we would like to express our thanks to thesponsors of the training course:

Hungarian Crime-Prevention Institute (BM – RBI), AdyligetLaw Enforcement College, POWER SHIELD Ltd., RIMISecurity Ltd., MFS 2000 Lôszergyártó Rt., Hûség 2000 Co.,IN-KAL Security Group, Elit Védelem Ltd. and Kôrös-Royal Ltd.

In consideration of the success and professionalism ofthis year’s course and the experiences of other special train-ing courses, IBSSA Headquarters will organise the continua-tion of this training – an even higher-level training seminar –the V. “SEC-tember” in Budapest / HUNGARYbetween 19-23 September 2006.

– Mr. Ottó SIMONYI (Hungary) Master Teacher of Combat Shooting– Mr. Frank PHILIPOOM (Netherlands) Master Teacher of Martial Arts– Mr. Attila KÔVÁGÓ (Hungary) Teacher of Combat Shooting– Mr. Gyula SIRA (Hungary) Senior Instructor of Self Defence– Mr. János HÜLBER (Austria) Senior Instructor of Self Defence– Mr. Zsolt KERESZTESI (Hungary) Instructor of Self Defence– Mr. Anthony CARLIN (Scotland) Instructor of Combat Driving– Mr. Anthony CARLIN (Scotland) Instructor of Combat Shooting– Mr. Gyula SIRA (Hungary) Instructor of Combat Shooting– Mr. János HÜLBER (Austria) Instructor of Combat Shooting– Mr. Jagos DJUROVIC (Serbia and Montenegro) Instructor of Shooting and Value Security Transportation– Dr. Milovan LAKUSIC (Serbia and Montenegro) Security Manager and Instructor of Self Defence– Mr. Konstantin LOMIDZE (Netherlands) Assistant Instructor of Self Defence– Mr. Freek HILLIGER (Netherlands) Assistant Instructor of Self Defence– Mr. Stefan KURILLA (Slovakia) Assistant Instructor of Self Defence– Mr. Jurgen KUIJTEN (Netherlands) Assistant Instructor of Driving– Mr. Gábor RÓTH (Hungary) Assistant Instructor of Combat Shooting– Mr. Zsolt PIPICZ (Hungary) Assistant Instructor of Combat Shooting

The Education & Qualification Department qualified and elevated to higher ranks the following newcandidates on 24th September, early in the morning:

Prof. George POPPER announced the next program, the Award Ceremony and handed over the certificates to the win-ners with the assistance of Dr. Rony KLUGER (ISR):“Best FIGHTER of IV. SEC-tember” 2005 Budapest / Hungary – Mr. Maris SALDAVS (Latvia)“Best DRIVER of IV. SEC-tember” 2005 Budapest / Hungary – Mr. Dave BEIJ (Netherlands)“Best BODYGUARD of IV. SEC-tember” 2005 Budapest / Hungary – Mr. Boris VUKOSAVLJEVIC (Slovenia) – Savoy SecurityResults of the Shooting Championships in Advanced and Beginner categories:“Best SHOOTER of IV. SEC-tember in BEGINNERS category” 2005 Budapest / Hungaryas winner: Mr. Stefan KURILLA (Slovakia), 2nd place Mr. Ferenc BORSOS (Hungary). 3rd place Mr. Simon SIMONCIC (Slovenia) – Savoy Security“Best SHOOTER of IV. SEC-tember in ADVANCED category” 2005 Budapest / Hungaryas winner: Mr. Stefan ÁCS (Slovakia),2nd place Mr. Zsolt PIPICZ (Hungary) – Black Titán Ltd.3rd place Mr. Zsolt BAJNOK (Hungary) – Adyliget Law Enforcement College

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Who has not seen hundreds of thousands of peoplecovering the place, madly cheering pop starts? Whocannot list sports event where 50-80,000 fanatic foot-ball fans give voice to disagreement with the referee’sdecision? In some places, the crowds are controlled byprofessional work; in others, things may turn into atragedy. Our magazine asked the professional man-ager of Hungary’s largest event security companyIn-Kal Security to summarise the basic concepts,principals and rules along which they work.

When organising and ensuring security forevents, some basic concepts and professionaland legal regulations have to be made clear to beable to work smoothly and successfully.

We talk about an event when some sports,cultural, political or social event or gathering isheld organised by some structured community,association, public or civil organisation or pri-vate individual, where different people meet forsome purpose just for once, periodically or on aconstant basis.

Event security means the total of measuresand activities taken to ensure smooth realisationof the event and to protects the life and proper-ty of the participants.

In retrospect it can be seen that privatebodyguards and security services have emergeddirectly before the political regime changeamong Hungarian security businesses and haveundergone a stage of quick development concur-rently with privatisation after the politicalregime change.

The role of politics in the development ofthese security services

The situation after the democratic transfor-mation played and important role in the quickdevelopment of event security as a branch ofservices, when the political change started totake place in Hungary together with the so-called street politics that accompanied it. Thismade it absolutely necessary to provide modernand efficient event security, which was not

based on violence. At the same time, in furtherdevelopment of the experience gained the devel-opment of event security as a branch of securityservices started, and has emerged as one of theleading branches of the trade by today.

Ever since events have been held, there hasalways been a need for supervisors, organisers ora staff or organisers whose traditional, “classi-cal” organisational tasks have not changed.Today, the events that accommodate hundredsof thousands of people regardless of their char-acter or purpose cannot make do without thewell-trained professionals who are prepared toensure that the event runs smoothly and theparticipants are not disturbed.

The role of private security services (organis-ers) will never be the same as the police’s lawenforcement role, partly due to their powers andpartly due to the lack of authorisation grantedin legislation.

Security services may perform their tasks onthe basis of and in compliance with the provi-sions of Act IV of 1998; they are not lowenforcers but only civilian organisers perform-ing traditional organiser tasks.

Based on the current regulations, there mustbe at least 1 organiser employed per 100 partici-pants at the event.

Private security services may not take over thepolice’s role at events as the powers of securityguards are limited and do not include statutorypowers; and the other hand, in the course of per-forming a task jointly with a police officer, theyenjoy increase legal protection as a person sup-porting am official person, and control powersare also increased.

Co-operation between private securityservices and the police is indispensable whenensuring the security of events. The tasks of pri-vate security services cannot be rigidly distin-guished from police tasks at the entrances to theevent venue. Where hundreds or thousands ofparticipants are present, the behaviour of thecrowd needs to be controlled – within the

Controlling hundreds of thousandsThe practice of securing events

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framework defined by law – and compliance withthe conditions for participation must be ensured.

It is necessary to have a police officer takingpart in the work, who may take the measuresand follow the procedures of a required extent,exercising his powers, such as:– security services may not take away prohibit-

ed equipment or items particularly dangerousfor public security from participant; instead,they may refer the person together with theitem to the police officer in order to be able totake further measures,

– security guards may not check the identity of,or proceed against, people who commit wilfulvandalism but may retain such persons untilthe police officer arrives, after which theypass the person over for the purpose of theprocedure.The basic pillar for successful event security is

fair and good co-operation with the police andorganisers in the framework of which tasks areclearly distinguished and the extent and scope ofresponsibilities is clarified.

The purpose of event security is to ensuresmooth realisation of events, to screen and keepaway unauthorised persons, to warrant the safetyof persons and property of the participants, tosafeguard the event location, to prevent vandal-ism, too protect public area, the environment andnature, as well as to prevent any attempts at dis-order, harnessing the persons creating disorder andto detach and remove such persons from the eventwith the help of official persons.

As regards the types of events, they may bediverse: cultural, sport, political, economic, military

Exhibits in the Hooligan Museum

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events or events related to family events, demon-strations, marches, religious ceremonies, religiousprocessions.

By venue of the event, we can talk aboutevents to be held outdoors, indoors, in closed facil-ities, in private areas, public areas or private areasopen for public traffic.

What is a civilian security service empow-ered for?

Before the service tasks begin, the field staffhas to be briefed when the specific post, task andthe method of keeping contact are defined inaccordance with the security plan, the requiredequipment and tools are handed out, outfits andlooks are checked, conduct to be shown concern-ing the audience at the event is defined, informa-tion about the event is provided and stand by peri-ods are defined.

Security check of the location: investigatingthe condition of the stage, the pulpit or playing fieldor sports filed, seats, escape roots to emergency exits

are checked, and are furnished with appropriatemarkings, fire protection check, checking for explo-sives, verification of the operability of light andsound equipment, testing of technical equipmentfor keeping contact, checking of parking lots.

Security guards are authorised to conductchecks, check clothing and luggage of people enter-ing the event.

If the event is private, people may enter onlybased on a list of names or invitation cards provid-ed by the Client, after conducting any otherchecks defined by the Client.

In case events that may be visited with entrytickets, the purchase of the entry ticket constitutesa valid contract between the even organiser andthe buyer based on which the organiser defines thecompliance with to these rules must be ensured atthe event venue. If the ticket owner fails to meetthe rules, entry may be refused. In such events, theentrance procedure starts by validating the ticketand control (checking authorisation to enter).

Ticket control is followed by the first stage ofsecurity check. This includes the checking of cloth-ing and luggage as an activity (security guards maynot search persons).

The checking of clothing may include no morethan clothing, items, fixed on the body and lug-gage or bags carried by people. The check shall beconducted by security personnel of the same gen-der as the person being checked.

If any person is spotted possessing any itemdangerous for public security on entry, the personmust be handed over to the police so that it cantake the appropriate measures. If there is no policeofficer at the event, entry must be refused.

We have been providing security for eventsattracting several hundreds of thousands of visi-tors such as Sziget Festival, Budapest Parade,T-Mobile Concerts or the sports events held atPuskás Ferenc stadium, which accommodate a sev-eral tens of thousands of viewers, with the help ofthe theoretical and professional concepts and legalregulations described above, with the help ofIn-Kal Security 2000 Kft’s staff.

Mrs. Imréné VágóIn-Kal Security 2000 Kft

Chief Director for Security

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Bodily search

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Bomb security and exploitation tasks repre-sent one of the least regulated areas of theHungarian civil security profession, becauseeven at present the bomb disposal activities onmotorways and in institutions, bomb securitytasks related to events are performed in the civilsector by ex-service and retired bomb disposalexperts and security experts trained in the civilsector with a silent approval of authorities. Thestate, as the legislator, has been struggling tocome up with legislation for this area for morethan ten years now, although the social needscreate more demand than may be covered withthe bomb disposal staff of the Ministry ofInterior and the Army, especially based on theincreased number of bomb scares in the recentperiod. The impact of bomb threats spectacular-ly demonstrates weaknesses of the society, cre-ating chaos and panic among authorities andthe population. On the other hand, the success-ful explosions highlight the success of perpetra-tors because they make the headlines in masscommunications. The advantages of explosionsfor terrorists may be offset with active involve-ment and deliberate information of securityservices, civil organisations and the population.

The brief historical review of bomb disposaland bomb detection activities in Hungaryreveals the expectations of the society in thisarea. Following the Second World War, the FirstIndependent Bomb Disposal and MineDetection Battalion of the army had a nationaland exclusive competence for the disposal ofmilitary explosives. In addition to these tasks,they were also responsible for securingHungarian and foreign individuals during theirstay in Hungary in terms of bombs. The activi-ties had to be separated because of an increasingnumber of tasks and terrorist threats: the armyis still responsible for the disposal of militaryexplosives in public and private areas arisingfrom military activities and negligent handling,while the police have been assigned with thetask of managing improvised bombs and stan-

dard military instruments relating to crimes. Inaddition, the police are also responsible for thebomb investigation at celebrations, events andin threatened buildings, disposal of detectedbombs, expert analysis followed by destruction.

Following an increase in the number of activ-ities, at the end of the 1980’s trained bombresearchers emerged within the framework ofthe police forces and following the systemicchange in 1989 the number of departmentsengaged in bomb disposal, bomb detection andsimilar activities appeared in more and morepolice units. Act IV of 1998 on bodyguards andsecurity guards in companies as well as privatedetectives could not regulate bomb detectionactivities in the civil sector either, thus theProfessional Chamber of Bodyguards, SecurityGuards and Private Detectives classified bombdisposal on motorways and in institutions asanother activity.

Several bomb disposal and bomb detectionexperts died or obtained permanent injuriesfrom bomb disposal activities on motorwaysand institutions due to lack of legal regulationsin recent years. The bomb detection tasks ofbodyguards and security guards were rejected bythe society due to lack of basic knowledge,because the irregularity of inadequate imple-mentation violated the intimacy of private indi-viduals. Only bomb detection activities performed

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Bomb safety in the civil sectorFatal accidents due to lack of regulations

Mr. Csaba Kertész

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within the framework of the police imposes ahazard on the safety of society, because theincreased terrorist threats, erroneous bombscares lead to a panic among the population andauthorities. The authorities are unable to per-form the increased bomb detection tasks withits existing staff and therefore they follows thegood example of some European Union MemberStates (e.g., Austria, etc.), and assigns civil secu-rity services to perform such bomb detectiontasks in co-operation with authorities. The EUMember States have recognised the destructiveeffect of terrorism on the society and will sup-port research creating a basis for the fightagainst terrorism and protection of citizenswith EUR 250 million from 2007. The EuropeanUnion considers that terrorist attacks per-formed with explosives, chemical, biological,radiological or nuclear substances in publictransport or in certain parts of cities representrealistic threats. The European Commission

therefore has decided to support all researchplans as a result of which the terrorist combat-ing system will become more efficient and effec-tive, security experts can recognise real terroristthreats and protect their citizens and democracyin Europe more effectively.

Naturally, the responsibility of civil securityservices in their bomb detection activities is anissue among the increasing number of tasks ascertain hazardous materials may be taken out ofthe control of authorities. Experiences of the EUMember States indicate that with adequatelaws governing bomb detection activities andclose co-operation between the civil securityservice and authorities can lead to good resultsin detection and research of bomb scares, reliev-ing authorities from a huge burden in this field.

Mr. Csaba KertészIBSSA Head of the Bomb Disposal

and Security Department

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In November 2005, Géza Halaska and MiklósVarga took part in the 46th INEOA Congress(International Narcotic Enforcement OfficersAssociation) where they officially announcedthe establishment of Hungarian Narcotic

Enforcement Officers Association (HNEOA).The main subject of this congress and thetraining following it included the role of bioand narco terrorism in the world and effectivemethods of action.

Top technology in explosives researchIBSSA experts attended a demonstration

show of an equipment detecting explosivesand hidden arms, an absolute novelty in theworld, in Lisbon, in February.

The demonstration was given by Sniffexcompany, operating in the United Statesand its Portuguese partner,Chelworth InvestmentsLtd.

Dr. Abel Lacerda, IBSSAmember, owner of thebrand representation,explained that the tinySniffex explosives andarms detector, fitting even

in a human palm, is capable of detectingvarious explosives and fire arms even at adistance of 15-30 metres, even if they arebehind a metal plate or a wall. The devicedetects ions released from explosives andfirearms.

Several tests were demon-strated to the leading offi-cials of our association.Members of the brand repre-sentation added that newer,even more sensitive versionsof the tiny, therefore unno-ticeable explosive detectorwill soon be available too.

Establishment of HNEOA

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IBSSA Education &Qualification Dep.meeting in Budapest24 Sept. 2005

Participating:

Mr. Stephen CHEE

Dr. Miklós VARGA

Mr. Attila FARKAS (guest)

Dr. Frank PHILIPOOM (guest)

Dr. Rony KLUGER – Chairman of the department

1 In future during all “SEC-tember” training courses

and other official courses run by IBSSA, the training

program and the team of Master Teachers will be

coordinated by the Education & Qualification

Department. Of course preliminary reconciliation

with the Chief Organisers is necessary.

2 The Department Chairman will coordinate the work

of the department members and the work of the

Teachers and Instructors.

3 We will create a set of Forms to administrate and

control the smooth run of the courses. The forms

will ensure proper checking and controlling the par-

ticipants’ data.

The forms will help to ensure proper system of work

between the candidates and Teachers, it will systema-

tise testing procedures.

The participants in future must provide: passport

data photocopy, passport photo, and copy of driving

license.

4 The candidates will be divided / categorised by their

experience to ensure the best result of our teachings.

5 During the course accidents will be reported in writ-

ing (special report form) to IBSSA HQ by the rele-

vant Teacher. All accidents will be discussed and

learned by our Department.

6 We advise that the Board of Directors will make sure

that IBSSA badges include only Membership Cards

with name, country and the title of full member +

official position within IBSSA.

The IBSSA Passport will include the profession and

the professional credit of the member.

7 We call all members to keep our department rules as

it has been formalised and published.

During a special seminar held inBudapest, the President of IBSSA Prof.George POPPER and the GeneralSecretary of IBSSA Prof. Rony KLUGERheld an official meeting with Dr. Shraga SADE - SeniorExpert Psychologist from Israel, a specialist in his field avery talented lecturer.

As a conclusion from this meeting IBSSA created his newDepartment of Psychology.

The department will be under the leadership of Dr. SADE.Congratulation and well come on board to our new colleagueDr. SADE . The Department will offer courses seminars to ourmembers and will give advisory service on request.

Further Training in SopronThe joint further training course of IBSSA and Folda

International Bodyguard Training Centre was organised inSopron, on the Hungarian side of the Austrian-Hungarianborder, during the last weekend in June. Participants arrivedfrom IBSSA countries to take place in special shooting situa-tion and combat training. In the programme, bodyguardscompleted an extreme physical, 11 km forest course, duringwhich they were exposed to regular attacks, forcing them toescape. The other special event of the programme was organ-ised by Lake Fertô, where students had to rescue protectedpeople who had fallen into the water and took part in awater rescue training. Senior trainers:Dr. Miklós Varga – IBSSA master teacher, head of the train-ing committeeAttila Farkas– IBSSA VIP master teacherJános Laub – IBSSA Escort master teacherCsaba Somogyi– IBSSA Bodyguard instructorAttila Vasánszki – IBSSA Bodyguard instructorPéter Kámán– water rescue instructor

water rescue training.

New IBSSADepartmentPsychology in Security

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For whom only perfect is acceptable

Renshi István KELEMEN (7 dan), one of the founding

members of IBSSA, has large international reputation. When

we sat down to talk after a dan exam, I asked him about

fighting with a stick and knife. I wanted to know how he beat

the world and how he could disable a steel-muscled meat

colossus in just moments. My questions focused on fight, and

I soon had to realise that we were talking about beliefs and

ancient philosophy. What was really interesting is that even

then we remained in our basic subject, martial arts.

István Kelemen founded the first private dojo club in

Budapest from a military fighting club at the beginning

of the 1980’s. It became popular very fast. Young peo-

ple queued to get into the club and become members.

Many young people learnt about the

basis of martial arts and later became

known in this kind of sports or in

other sports. Even wrestling Olympic

champions visited the club.

István Kelemen learnt and taught.

He visited the most reputable jitsu

workshops of the world and learnt

his actions from the best. In the

meantime, as a civilian, he also

taught the elite group of the police

force for hand-to-hand fighting. He

was a stuntman, became a high-qual-

ity security expert and founded

Testôr Kft. in the summer of 1989.

The company has been securing facil-

ities and performed special personal protection tasks

ever since. While building his own business, naturally

he did not neglect jiu jitsu either, because it was also

part of business. He was the president of the

Hungarian federation for a long time, then he resigned

and since then he has only been engaged in the profes-

sional issues and techniques. It is mainly due to his

huge contribution that Hungarian jiu jitsu fighters are

mentioned together with the Finns. It is also the result

of his impact that in Hungary approximately 600

adults train regularly in 30 clubs, and 300-400 children

compete in a children’s competition. He is the chair-

man of the Hungarian Dan College (this position is

always held by the Hungarian citizen with the highest

degree achieved).

‘I teach and exercise martial arts and not ballet’

JJ styles compete with each other all over the

world. Mr. Kelemen supports the full contact branch,

with completely individual solutions. He believes if

we know the physical side of the fight, for victory we

must know the best technique of all styles and we

have to find the right method for beating attacks, i.e.,

defence. He thinks force is most important, and

believes in 100 % technique. In his opinion if a blow

is not accurate, it is bad. However, those believing in

a different style and approach still accept and consid-

er good a 99 per cent blow, remaining with the

expression of percentages. Kelemen sees himself

proven with the practice of the professional world

where his philosophy is applied.

The terror combating organisations

also operate with the same

approach. This is what he taught to

the members of the Russian state

security organisation as well as in

Israel.

Many people are engaged, and

perform well, in this branch of

martial arts. Kelemen thinks

that among the good ones the

winner will not think in panels

and apart from physical training

will also conduct intellectual

trainings. He believes that mar-

tial is ‘medication in motion’.

He can list examples indicating that knowledge

of archaic and sacral literature helps a lot in the

perfection of movements. Intellectual and phys-

ical forces make a system work. And then he

asks me a moral question too: if we manage to

achieve perfect movement and man is unbeat-

able, what guarantees that this knowledge will

only serve good? He finds his answer in belief

when he says that spiritual peace can be

achieved through the purity of the soul. If this is

the motivating factor, the movement will be

implemented well too, guaranteeing that forces

are not used for bad purposes. This is how we

have got from suffocating and kicking to believ-

ing. Would you ever have thought it?

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Folda International Bodyguard Training Centre opened two new offices and training centreson top of its existing eight facilities last year. International bodyguard training now takes placein New Zealand - Mount Manganui, and in Sweden, Malmö, too. The future plans of FoldaInternational Ltd. include opening of further training centres in the Ukraine, Serbia andBelgium. The long-term plans also contain centres on the South American continent.

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New training centres in Europe and New Zealand

A traditional international training campwas organised on Lake Balaton, theHungarian sea, with the participation of 30foreign and approximately 100 Hungarianjitsukas. The Hungarian Ju Jitsu Federation hasinvited the traditionally strong trainers’ staff forthe one-week training camp. As the Martial ArtsMagazine, a special periodical published in theHungarian language also stated, during the train-ing camp, sensei István Kelemen (7 dan), chair-man of the dan section of the Hungarian Ju JitsuFederation, tested a sportsman in an exam infront of the leading trainers of the Hungarian dansection and world association. Sándor Füvesi,instructor of Hódmezôvásárhely, passed theexam successfully (3 dan). During the camp, the following masters andguests passed on their knowledge to participants:Vlado Schmidt (Germany), ju jitsu (10 dan),Giacomo Spartaco Bertoletti (Italy), WJJKO president, ju jitsu (8 dan WJJKO, 9 dan JJIF),Dr. Rony Kluger (Israel, 8 dan), goju kai tradi-tional Okinawa karate master,Auvo Niiniketo (7 dan), president of the Finnish Ju

Jitsu Federation and founder of hokutoryu ju jitsu,Günter Painter (Austria), ju jitsu (5 dan), tantojutsu and kobudo master,Eyal Cohen (Israel) WJJKO (4 dan).

At the end of the camp, the leadership of theworld association and the Hungarian dan sectionawarded István Kelemen master, founder of theHungarian Ju Jitsu Federation and chairman ofthe dan section the 7th dan Renshi degree, andAttila Kovács, president of the Hungarian Ju JitsuFederation, the 5th dan Shihan degree.

Harcmûvészek Magazin

International jitsu training camp on Lake Balaton

Participiants of the training camp

Mr. Sándor Füvesi during the Dan Eximination

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It was the second time we held a special qualifi-cation program in Israel, in the form of a week longcourse with quality instruction held in the IsraeliHeadquarters under the watchful eyes of the HeadMaster Prof. Rony Kluger and his staff.

The course was a very successful event with veryfine achievements of Mr. János HÜLBER (A),Mr. Gyula SIRA (H), and Mr. Zsolt UDVARI (H),who has qualified successfully.

The course covered professional aspects of KravMaga as well as the art of teaching.

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IBSSA International Sport FederationThe 2nd Special Israeli System of Military Self Defence - Krav Maga -Instructors Course Israel - October 2005

President of IBSSA - ISF ran a verysuccessful training seminar in CapeTown, South Africa, October 2005

Excellent year of activities within the fruitful cooperation of IBSSA and the International Budo Academy.

Some years ago IBSSA and the International BudoAcademy signed an official agreement on cooperation.This cooperation turned into some major flourishingactive cooperation during the last year.

We started two new faculties: the first is theFaculty of Security Sciences and the latest one isthe Faculty of Alternative Medicine. We alsorun some very successful clinics and training pro-grams in USA, Holland, Israel and of course inHungary. IBA signed an agreement with theEuropean Crime Prevention Institute under theleadership of Prof. Ferenc TÓTH .

Within the framework of this agreement we run aseries of very successful seminars in Budapest,withhighly professional and famous lecturers from Israelin the field of Physical Security Systems, InternationalTerror and the latest one is in Psychology. The

Academic courses proved to be a great success.In Holland we put a firm ground under our activi-

ties with close cooperation of two of our excellentleaders Dr. Eric Van De Wall, Dean of the Facultyof Alternative Medicine of IBA and Dr. FrankPhilipoom the Head of the IBA Chamber inHolland.

During 2005 we held three major events of OfficialAcademic award ceremonies: one in Holland and onein Budapest and a very special one in the USA.

During the 2005 AAU National KarateChampionships IBA awarded Joe B. MIRZA AAU leg-endary president and IBSSA International SportFederation Executive President the Degree of Doctorof Philosophy - Budo Education and Leadership.

We are looking ahead to very active years of devel-opment to come.

In the framework of the IBSSA - InternationalSport Federation activities the President,

Prof. Rony KLUGER has been invited to teach avery successful seminar in Cape Town. High rankedMartial Art Teachers joined the activities whichincluded training and a series of lectures.

During the visit Prof. KLUGER met with localleaders of the Security Industry and visited localPolice HQ. The visit had an excellent media cover.

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Establishment of the National Mounted Services Association From the royal Canadian Mounted Police to the Kazakh horsemen

The 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-coun-try, why can’t they do it in a target oriented fash-ion. 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 sub-urban areas where order or environmental protec-tion agencies 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 primari-ly in Budapest agglomeration whereby the cross-country rides of their riders should be connectedwith environmental protection or land protectiontasks on a particular settlement, connecting pleas-ure with use. The National Mounted Guard oper-ates based on the objective of co-ordinating theseideas and intentions.

On the basis of the environmental problems, theopportunity is obvious: local police forces and pre-vention patrols can monitor mainly urban proper-ties, but the countryside cannot be monitored bypatrolling with a vehicle. Suburban areas areexposed to various types of risks, the most consid-erable of which include theft and robbery in week-end houses, 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 territo-ry of the Republic of Hungary, in co-operation

with all public organisations and NGOs, as well assecurity companies interested in crime prevention,as well as citizens striving for creation, mainte-nance and 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 sys-tem which is currently being developed.

The Association develops co-operation with vari-ous ministries, 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 imple-mentation of the National Riding Programme.

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Another very important objective of theAssociation is to develop close co-operation withthe Ministry of Defence and its regional agencies interms of non-armed defence activities, primarilytraining and education, attitude development ofyoung people, teaching them how to be patrioticand prepare them for contractual or official service.

International mounted guard officer train-ing in Hungary with Portuguese assistanceIn view of the fact that the same or similar servic-es already operate in other countries, includingthe Canadian Mounted Guard, the FrenchNational Guards and Spanish horsemen, all theway to famous Kazakhs with long historic tradi-tions, the Association takes a lot of steps to buildand foster international relations. In this spirit,Professor José Cosmelli The Regent of theSovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem,Knight of Malta, FAP., Portugese diplomat,Chairman of IBSSA Horse Riding Department,participated in the inauguration ceremony ofKomárom Riding Mill, during which an agree-ment was reached on future cooperation. Thismutual activity will also include the granting ofinternational certification, the so-called mountedguard officer, by the Portuguese training centreapart from the Hungarian certification to all can-didates who must satisfy very strict requirementsin this concept. This cooperation is personallyguaranteed by Dr. Ferenc Kertész, who is the man-aging president of the National Mounted Guard,and also secretary of IBSSA mounted section.

As it was indicated above, the Association hasset an objective of creating a collective organisa-tion based on wide social cooperation but stricttechnical knowledge and qualifications, which isopen to all citizens without a criminal record ifthey have the required recommendations.

The Association has a key target of developingqualifications and knowledge of its members andtheir certification based on strict criteria in order toguarantee professional and reliable cooperationwith national and local agencies and organisations.

Mr. Ákos Kenedi National Mounted Services Association – President

He is an American Hungarian citizen, 60 years old,with long red-brownish hair, typically in a pony tail,and a red, thick beard. He is very short, and carelesspeople do not even count him in for a fight. However, hewas trained close-range fighting both in the USA andthe Middle East. He is an arms expert, an internationalsecurity expert, international security consultant andarms master. He is very proud of his diploma from ProDeo university, centred in New York; he is a doctor ofsecurity and protection sciences. Dr. Oliver L. Rozsahas been a member of IBSSA since 1997 and is thechairman’s advisor for shooting.

We met him in hishome. While he carriedon with a few things, hegave me some technicalpapers to look at. Ofcourse, they were allabout arms. I still remem-ber the title of two, onewas called Military SmallArms, and the otherSoldier of Fortune.

‘I have loved arms since my childhood,’ heremembered the beginning. ‘I’m lucky becausemy trade is my hobby and my hobby is my trade.I dare say that I have always had a weapon on mesince I left Hungary in 1968. Nowadays that Ispend the majority of the year at home I stillcarry arms. I think we have grown together as Ifeel almost naked without them.’

‘Are you afraid?’‘No, I’m not afraid, but I think one has to be

prepared for a potential attack because, unfortu-nately, we live in a dangerous world. My profes-sion orders me to the alert all the time.’

‘Do you take your weapons abroad too, ordo you keep a few wherever you usually go?’

‘I always have weapons on me in each countrywherever the law allows it. E.g., I have a gun licencein the USA too, effective in 27 of the 50 states. So Ikeep weapons and ammunition there, too. I alsohave a European gun passport to move gunsaround whenever go to competitions or to hunt.’

Lover of weapons

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‘It is well known about you in the pro-fession that you received diversified train-ing but your strength is shooting.’

‘My speciality is Middle East, where I spentyears. I learnt and taught there. I worked as abodyguard, expert and advisor. I also learnt inthe USA, but I mainly worked there, carryingout several tasks. Of course, my work took meto other countries too but these two placesdominated in my life.’

‘As far as I know, you also had a Russianemployer.’

‘I have got good references.’‘It is definitely to your benefit that even

these days you finish senior competitionsin the top positions.’

‘I take part in some competition each week.Recently, a new competition was launched inHungary under the auspices of IDPA –International Defensive Pistol Association –which is very close to the situational competi-tion of bodyguards. Naturally, you can onlyshoot with a standard gun like in IBSSA com-petitions. The guns which may be used in IPSCopen category have been equipped with an elec-tro-point laser target device, which significant-ly assists the accuracy of the shot. Otherwise Iconstantly train myself and lead courses all overthe world. I love situational shooting in inter-national competitions in the 3-guns categoryincluding shotguns, guns and pistols. I have gotgood results. I am the Hungarian senior cham-pion of IPSC category, situational category. Ihave a team gold medal from an IPA competi-tion (International Police Association), I wassecond in the shotgun competition organisedby IDPA in Kentucky, USA. Competitions areorganised with machine guns regularly there,attended by former members of armed forces aswell as representatives of the civil sector. Theseshooting competitions clearly assist the situa-tion recognition skills, speed, alertness, abilitiesand determination of bodyguards.’

‘I have seen some of your weapons. They arevery rare and special.’

‘If I am right, my collection consists ofapproximately 50 weapons which unfortunate-

ly cannot be kept at one place. I have huntingweapons, corporate weapons, these legalweapons, I have a shooting club, involvingsports weapons, and I have got my ownweapons which represent my own property.

‘I have also got historical weapons, e.g., aWorld War One long-barrel machine gun,Luger, from Erfurt in 1914, including also acompatible sling, a leather case and woodenstock. I have a weapon which was used duringthe landing in Normandy in 1944, including a45-calibre Thompson. Of course, theseweapons are only suitable for individual shots.I have a P39 from Wermacht, the Second WorldWar, which also includes a sling and a case. Ialso own modern weapons, various revolvers, a45 colt, a BT96, which is the civilian version ofMP. My name is also engraved in it, as it wasspecifically made for me in Switzerland. It is aspecial weapon because it carries my date ofbirth, in its serial number. My self-defenceweapon is a Sig Sauer 228, 9mm one. This iswhat I carry on me each day. I also have aWalter, which was used in Luftwaffe, as a spe-cial weapon. New weapons are usuallydesigned on the basis of old ones, they are mod-ified versions, therefore I of course regularlyread the technical literature. I have very goodunderstanding of not only old but also newweapons. I can say that I am up-to-date inweapons.’

‘What is your responsibility in IBSSA?’‘I supervise and coordinate the activities of

the Shooting Committee, and organise furthertraining of IBSSA shooter members. In addi-tion, I am the shooting advisor of IBSSA presi-dent. Although we did not talk about it, butthere is one more subject, which is very close tomy heart, the fight against drugs. I think thattwo things threaten the world which is not inwar these days, terrorism and drugs or I mayeven say narco-terrorism. This latter one is atleast as dangerous as the spectacular bombingsand massacres. This is why I represent IBSSAat the INAOA (International NarcoticAfforcement Officers Association) centre inthe USA.

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Honorary member Sándor Oszter

IBSSA regularly invites famous people whose hon-orary membership increases the prestige of the organi-sation. Now we present a new member who is far fromcriminal investigation or defence responsibilities butcould even be a minister of interior or bodyguard com-mander. For Sándor OSZTER is an actor.

‘There was a stuntman school in Budakesziwhere each morning began with us running upa hill with a sandbag on our neck twenty timesand when even our liver hurt from the strain westarted wall jumping. There was a gallery wallin the gym where we trained on which we hadto jump hanging on to the wall with our finger-tips. Those who fell had to do another 50 press-ups. (I was always among the first five to fall.)This was followed by riding practice. We had tojump on a running horse, for which you had totake the pace of the horse, get hold of the horse’smane and then pull yourself up with thedynamics of the horse. I was 28 years old whenI started it. It was a splendid school.’

‘What do you still use from what youlearnt in the stuntman school?’

‘Almost everything. There is a saying that ayoung twig bends but an old one breaks. Thosewho do not build their own base at a young agewill collapse from the burden later. I used to traintwo hours a day then, and I can still rely on thisbasis. If someone is born to a buffer, he only hasto learn to fall because everybody will kick him.But if someone is born to play huge, traditionalheroic roles, he must understand the historicalfighting methods, which required the base indi-cated above. Just think of Romeo and Juliet, con-taining huge fending scenes, Hamlet, and I couldstill give you a long list. In addition, the currentaction films could not be performed withouttraining either. That’s why I learnt karate, judo;we trained with a sword and dagger and alsolearnt their medieval versions. On top of every-thing, we also had to practice riding tricks. Howwould I have performed the famous Hungarianoutlaw, Sándor Rózsa, without all these?’

‘What about shooting?’

‘I am still good at it.Recently there was a com-petition organised by our-selves, hunters. We had toaim at 150 m, had threeshots and I came first fromapproximately 50 hunters.’

‘This clearly indicates that you arestrongly attracted to fighting sports andthe use of weapons. Is this where IBSSAenters the picture?’

‘I am an honorary member of the organisa-tion. It has been true ever since the world oftribes that the more someone is equipped in self-defence, defence and attack, the better chancehe has to survive dangerous situations.’

‘IBSSA has a rather good relationshipwith the Knight of Malta and recently youhave also joined the order. What does beinga knight mean to you?’

‘I have always been interested in the history ofthe various knight orders, including the SovereignOrder of Saint John of Jerusalem, Knights ofMalta, but I thought that it was only privilege ofthe few selected by birth to join them. A knightalways meant a warrior, fighting for a good rea-son. As long as this ideology existed, especiallyduring the wars on the Holy Land, kings wereeager to attract all knight orders so that theycould fight in their colours. This kind of activitycompletely stopped by the Eighteenth century.These days, during the period of advanced infor-mation technology and super weapons a trans-formed knight order has entered the stage. Insteadof taking a sword and joining a war, a charity, eth-ical association has developed. In my opinion theKnight Order is an organisation which is impor-tant diplomatically too, and is capable of manythings. If various civil organisations also cooperatewith each other (e.g., the Knight Order andIBSSA), our power will be multiplied. We mightnot necessarily perform our tasks in public all thetime but the final result is what matters. This isthe objective of my activities and I follow myknight predecessors in serving for good.

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