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Csongrád County was renamed Csongrád-Csanád County with effect from 4 June 2020.
Csongrád-Csanád (Csongrád-Csanád vármegye]) is an administrative county (comitatus or vármegye) in southern Hungary.
The administrative centre of Csongrád-Csanád County is Szeged.
The Rendőrség (Police), ORFK, is the national civil law enforcement agency of Hungary and is governed by the Interior Ministry.
Formed: 1955 (Communist era).
Dissolved: 1990 (end of Communist era).
Reformed: 1990 (Current).
The Hungarian Police is the main and largest governmental law enforcement agency in Hungary.
It reports to the Ministry of the Interior and is headed by the National Commissioner of the Police (országos rendőrfőkapitány).
The National Police Headquarters (ORFK) is the central unit of the Police, which has a nationwide jurisdiction and competence, is considered an independent legal entity and contains separate functional units.
It carries out general policing, patrolling, traffic policing, border control and criminal investigations.
It is divided into twenty regional units: one for the capital city Budapest and nineteen for the nineteen counties of Hungary.
County (metropolitan) police headquarters with separate jurisdiction and competence are under the direct supervision of the National Police Headquarters (ORFK).
Within their framework, the local units of the Police with separate tasks (police stations and border police stations) operate, too.
