The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the

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(; abbr. MUP) or the Ministry of the Interior, is a cabinet-level ministry in the

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. The Ministry is responsible for local and national

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services, with

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and district branches throughout the country. Its core responsibilities include: crime prevention, criminal apprehension, investigations, customs and border control, counter-terrorism, anti-corruption, anti-narcotics and disaster relief. The ministry is also responsible for issuing

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and

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to citizens. The current minister is

Ivica Dačić Ivica Dačić ( sr-cyrl, Ивица Дачић, ; born 1 January 1966) is a Serbian politician serving as deputy prime minister of Serbia since 2022 and minister of internal affairs since 2024. He has been the leader of the Socialist Party of ...

, in office since 2 May 2024. As of August 2016, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has a total of 42,817 employees, of whom 28,266 are uniformed officers. Of those, 70.2% have secondary education, while 27.8% have higher or high education.

Organization

* Minister of Interior * Cabinet of Minister: ** Bureau for Strategic Planning ** Bureau for International Cooperation and European Integration ** Bureau for Complaints and Representations ** Bureau for Cooperation with the Media * Service of Internal Control * Secretary of State * Secretariat: ** Department for Normative-Legal and General Legal Affairs *** Department of Normative-Legal Affairs *** Department of General-Legal Affairs ** Department of housing * Directorate of Police: ** Crime Police Directorate ** General Police Directorate ** Traffic Police Directorate ** Border Police Directorate ** Directorate for Administrative Affairs ** Centre of Operations ** Directorate for Analytics ** Directorate of Technology ** Directorate of Connection and Cryptography ** Coordination Directorate for Kosovo and Metohija ** Regional Police directorates * Finance, Human Resources and Joint Affairs Sector: ** Department of Human Resources ** Department for Joint Affairs ** Department for Nutrition & Accommodations ** Department for Professional Education Training, Development and Science * Sector for Internal Police Control * Sector for Search and Rescue

Special police units

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* Special Anti-Terrorist Unit * Helicopter unit * Police Brigade (Belgrade) * Unit for Security of Objects and Personalities * Unit for Witness Protection

List of ministers

Ministers of Internal Affairs (1944–1991)

* Milentije Popović (1944–1946) * Slobodan Penezić (1946–1953) * Vojin Lukić (1953–1962) * Vladan Bojanić (1962–1963) * Milisav Lukić (1963–1965) * Životije Srba Savić (1965–1966) * Slavko Zečević (1966–1976) * Viobran Stanojević (1976–1982) * Svetomir Lalović (1982–1989) * Radmilo Bogdanović (1989–1991)

Ministers of Internal Affairs (1991–present)

Political Party:

References

External links

* {{authority control Interior 1991 establishments in Serbia Ministries established in 1991

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