My Endevours Paid Off!

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He was born on 15 October 1966 in Sárospatak to a Hungarian father and a romungro gipsy mother. Ferenc has three siblings. He lived in Tarcal, a small town of five thousand inhabitants. He graduated from Istvan Bocskai Secondary School, Szerencs in 1985. He continued his studies at the Sergeant Training School in Budapest. He worked at the Police Station of the 10th district between 1986-1996. He was the leader of pickets at the Budapest Police Headquarters from 1996 to 2004. In 2002 he earned a law degree and completed a sergeant training course at the Police Sergeant Training School. Between 2004-2006 he worked at the Budapest Police Headquarters and then became the commander of pickets. He has been a retired police major. Since 2005 he has been the founding president of the National Association of Roma Policemen. He ran a club for the disadantaged youth from 2007 to 2012. He is on the board of the Hungarian Gipsy Party. Since 2016 he has been doing community building among the Roma in Tiszavasvári. In 2002 he was nominated for the Policeman of the Year Award, in 2008 he was given the award of The Youth for Human Rights Foundation.