| Agency Name: | Ministry of Security of the Argentine Republic |
| Type: | Ministry |
| Nativename: | Ministerio de Seguridad de la República Argentina |
| Picture Caption: | Headquarters of the ministry in Buenos Aires |
| Preceding1: | Ministry of Justice, Security and Human Rights |
| Jurisdiction: | Government of Argentina |
| Headquarters: | Av. Gen. Gelly y Obes 2289, Buenos Aires |
| Budget: | $ 247,654,488,209 (2021)[1] |
| Minister1 Name: | Patricia Bullrich |
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The Ministry of Security (es|Ministerio de Seguridad; MINSEG) of Argentina is a ministry of the national executive power that oversees public safety and security. It co-ordinates the country's national security policy and oversees the Federal Police, the Airport Security Police, the Naval Prefecture, the National Gendarmerie, and the Penitentiary Service, as well as the newly created Federal Council for Interior Security.
The Ministry was created in 2010 by decree of then-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner; matters of national security had previously been part of the Ministry of Justice's portfolio.[2] The current minister of security is Patricia Bullrich, who assumed office in 2023 under President Javier Milei.[3]
The responsibilities and attributions of the Ministry of Security are outlined in article 22 bis of the Ley de Ministerios, which states that it is the ministry's goal to assist the President of the Nation and the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers in all matters pertaining to national security, the preservation of liberties, life and the patrimony of Argentina's inhabitants, as well as their rights, within the Argentine Republic's democratic framework.[4]
| No. | Minister | Party | Term | President | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bgcolor= | Broad Front | 15 December 2010 – 3 June 2013 | Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | ||||
| 2 | Arturo Puricelli | bgcolor= | Justicialist Party | 3 June 2013 – 2 December 2013 | ||||
| 3 | María Cecilia Rodríguez | New Encounter | 2 December 2013 – 10 December 2015 | |||||
| 4 | Patricia Bullrich | bgcolor= | Republican Proposal | 10 December 2015 – 10 December 2019 | bgcolor= | Mauricio Macri | ||
| 5 | Independent | 10 December 2019 – 20 September 2021 | Alberto Fernández | |||||
| 6 | Aníbal Fernández | bgcolor= | Justicialist Party | 20 September 2021 – 10 December 2023 | ||||
| 7 | bgcolor= | Republican Proposal | 10 December 2023 – Present | Javier Milei | ||||