Sándor Pintér

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Sándor Pintér

Minister of the Interior of Hungary
Incumbent
Assumed office 29 May 2010
Preceded by	Zoltán Varga (Minister of Local Government)
In office 6 July 1998 – 27 May 2002
Preceded by	Gábor Kuncze
Succeeded by	Mónika Lamperth
Personal details
Born	(1948-07-03) 3 July 1948 Budapest, Hungary
Political party	Independent
Profession	politician, police officer

The native form of this personal name is Pintér Sándor. This article uses the Western name order.

Sándor Pintér (born 3 July 1948 in Budapest) is a Hungarian politician. A former top police official, he served as Interior Minister between 1998 and 2002, in Viktor Orbán's cabinet.

He was appointed Minister of the Interior again in 2010. His most prominent tasks are the suppression of the delinquency and the restoration of the police's efficiency. The secret services' single part is also at his disposal. Pintér said that they had reviewed the changes done at the police in 2010, and also had set the tasks to be accomplished during the year of 2011 in order to improve the police work to achieve a better state of public order and security in the country.

Before his entry into the political arena after retirement, he worked as a police officer. After entering the police service in 1972 and rising through the ranks, he reached top positions in the Hungarian police, such as Chief of the Budapest police in 1991, and then Chief of the National Police between 1991 and 1996.

References

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Political offices
Preceded by Gábor Kuncze	Minister of the Interior 1998–2002	Succeeded by Mónika Lamperth
Preceded by Zoltán Varga	Minister of the Interior 2010–	Succeeded by Incumbent

v t e Current members of the Second Cabinet (Cabinet of the National Cooperation) of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

Prime Minister	Viktor Orbán – Fidesz

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister without portfolio	Zsolt Semjén – KDNP

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Public Administration and Justice	Tibor Navracsics – Fidesz

Minister of Interior	Sándor Pintér – non-party

Minister of Defence	Csaba Hende – Fidesz

Minister of Foreign Affairs	János Martonyi – Fidesz

Minister of National Economy	Mihály Varga – Fidesz

Minister of Human Resource	Zoltán Balog – Fidesz

Minister of National Development	Zsuzsanna Németh – non-party

Minister of Rural Development	Sándor Fazekas – Fidesz

v t e Ministers of the Interior of Hungary since 1848

Revolution of 1848	Szemere

Kingdom of Hungary	Wenckheim Rajner V. Tóth Szapáry K. Tisza Orczy Baross Teleki Szapáry Hieronymi Perczel K. Széll Khuen-Héderváry I. Tisza Kristóffy Andrássy Khuen-Héderváry Lukács Sándor Ugron J. Tóth Wekerle

Transition period	Batthyány V. Nagy Landler and Vágó Peyer Samassa Perényi Beniczky

Regency	Simonyi-Semadam Dömötör Ferdinandy Tomcsányi Ráday Klebelsberg Rakovszky Scitovszky Keresztes-Fischer Kozma Darányi J. Széll Keresztes-Fischer Jaross Bonczos Schell

Transition period	Vajna Erdei I. Nagy Rajk Kádár

Communist Hungary	Zöld Házi Györe Gerő Piros Münnich Biszku Pap Benkei I. Horváth Kamara I. Horváth Gál

Republic of Hungary	B. Horváth Boross Kónya Kuncze Pintér Lamperth Bajnai Gyenesei Varga Pintér

Authority control	VIAF: 121425834

Persondata
Name	Pinter, Sandor
Alternative names
Short description	Hungarian politician
Date of birth	3 July 1948
Place of birth	Budapest, Hungary
Date of death
Place of death

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