Ministry of the Interior (Croatia) explained
Agency Name: | Ministry of Internal Affairs the Republic of Croatia |
Nativename: | Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova Republike Hrvatske |
Headquarters: | Ulica grada Vukovara 33, Zagreb |
Formed: | 1990 |
Jurisdiction: | Government of Croatia |
Employees: | 25,641 (2015)[1] |
Budget: | HRK 4.818 billion (2015)[2] |
Minister1 Name: | Davor Božinović |
The ministry of the Internal Affairs Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova Republike Hrvatske or MUP RH) is the ministry in the Government of Croatia which is in charge of state security among other roles. Croatian Police is a public service of the Ministry of the Interior.
List of ministers
(9)
(2)
(1)
(1)
(*) Ministers of Internal Affairs who held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia while in office.
Notes
a. Karamarko was appointed in the HDZ-dominated Sanader cabinet as a non-party minister. In 2009 he continued to serve in the Kosor cabinet and formally joined HDZ in September 2011.[3]
Role
The Ministry of the Interior deals with administrative and other tasks related to the following:[4]
- policing and criminal police activities that involve protection of life and personal security of people and property and the prevention and detection of crime;
- tracing and capturing of perpetrators of criminal offences and their bringing before the competent authorities;
- maintaining of public order and the protection of particular persons, citizens, facilities and premises;
- conducting of technical crime investigations and expert analysis;
- road traffic safety;
- state border protection;
- movement and stay of aliens and their admission;
- travel documents for crossing the state border;
- safeguarding at public gatherings;
- nationality affairs;
- issuing of identity cards and the registration of residence and sojourn;
- issuing of driving licences and the registration of motor vehicles;
- procurement, keeping and carrying of weapons and ammunition;
- explosive devices and substances;
- protection of the constitutional order;
- special police force tasks and the supervision over security agencies.
The Ministry is also responsible for the following: keeping the records and statistics concerning the internal affairs, the internal affairs information system and the education and training of the Ministry's officers.
Organization
- Minister's Cabinet (Kabinet ministra)
- General Police Directorate (Ravnateljstvo policije)
- Material and Financial Affairs Directorate (Uprava za materijalno financijske poslove)
- Directorate for Development, Equipment and Support (Uprava za razvoj, opremanje i potporu)
- Legal Affairs and Human Resources Directorate (Uprava za pravne poslove i ljudske potencijale)
- Administrative and Inspection Affairs Directorate (Uprava za upravne i inspekcijske poslove)
- European Integration and International Affairs Directorate (Uprava za europske integracije i međunarodne odnose)
- Special Security Affairs Directorate (Uprava za posebne poslove sigurnosti)
General Police Directorate
See main article: Law enforcement in Croatia. The General Police Directorate is in charge of the national police. There are twenty geographical commands,[5] and the national body is organised as follows:[6]
- Police Directorate
- Public Order Department
- Command of Intervention Police
- Department for Road Traffic Safety
- Bomb Disposal Department
- Criminal Police Directorate
- General Crime Department
- Anti-terrorism and War Crime Department
- Organised Crime Department
- Economic Crime and Corruption Department
- Drugs Department
- Special Criminal Investigations Department
- Criminal Intelligence Analysis Department
- Protection Unit
- International Police Co-operation Department
- Border Police Directorate
- Neighbouring Countries Department
- State Border Protection Department
- Maritime and Airport Police Department
- Illegal Migration Department
- Centre for Training of Dog Handlers and Dog Dressure
- Reception Centre for Foreigners
- Mobile Unit for Static Border Control
The following units exists at the same level:
- Operational Police Communication Centre
- Forensic Centre
- Police Academy
Notes and References
- Blažević, Robert (2015): Upravna znanost, p. 284.
"...(on day 19. February 2015)."
- Web site: Državni proračun 2015. godina - Republika Hrvatska - Ministarstvo financija . Mfin.hr . 2015-06-30 . 2016-05-03.
- News: Karamarko ušao u HDZ bez odobrenja Visokog časnog suda . . 25 September 2011 . 8 November 2011.
- Web site: Ministry of the Interior . 2010-03-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100317021050/http://mup.hr/1263.aspx . 2010-03-17 . dead .
- Web site: Archived copy . www.interpol.int . 31 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070714174213/http://www.interpol.int/Public/Region/Europe/pjsystems/Charts/croatia1.pdf . 14 July 2007 . dead.
- Web site: Archived copy . www.interpol.int . 31 August 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070714174240/http://www.interpol.int/Public/Region/Europe/pjsystems/Charts/croatia.pdf . 14 July 2007 . dead.