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.[2] Of those, 70.2% have secondary education, while 27.8% have higher or high education.[2]
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
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
References
- ^ http://www.parlament.gov.rs/upload/archive/files/lat/pdf/zakoni/13_saziv/1916-23%20lat.pdf
- ^ a b "U MUP-u 42.817 zaposlenih, najviše sa srednjim obrazovanjem". n1info.com (in Serbian). FoNet. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 4 December 2017.
External links
- Official website (in Serbian)
