Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia)

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Mинистарство унутрашњих послова, romanized: Ministarstvo unutrašnjih poslova; abbr. MUP) or the Ministry of Interior, is a cabinet-level ministry in the Government of Serbia.

The Ministry is responsible for local and national Police services with municipal 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 passports and personal identification to citizens.

The current minister is Ivica Dačić, 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
  • Center 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

• Gendarmery
• 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:   SPS   DOS   SPO   ND / LS   DSS   SNS   PS

See also

• Ministry of Home Affairs
• Politics of Serbia

References

External links

• Official website (in Serbian)