The Home Department ( Malayalam: ആഭ്യന്തര വകുപ്പ്) is a department of the

Government of Kerala Government of Kerala is the Subnational administrative division, subnational government of the Indian state of Kerala. The government is led by a chief minister, who selects all the other ministers. The chief minister and their most senior mini ...

. It plays a key role in maintenance of law and order in the state of

Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South ...

. The department oversees the maintenance of law and order, prevention and control of crime, prosecution of criminals besides dealing with fire services and prisons administration. The department is also responsible for the functioning of State Police, Prisons and Correctional Services, Fire and Rescue Services,

Civil Defence Civil defense ( en, region=gb, civil defence) or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from man-made and natural disasters. It uses the principles of emergency operations: prevention, mit ...

and Home Guards. The department is also the cadre controlling authority of

Indian Police Service The Indian Police Service ( IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became independent from the British Raj. Along with the Indian Administrative Service (I ...

(IPS) (Kerala Cadre) and Kerala Police Service (KPS). The Chief Minister generally serves as the departmental minister, and the

Additional Chief Secretary The Chief Secretary is the top-most executive official and senior-most civil servant of the state government. The Chief Secretary is the ''ex-officio'' head of the state Civil Services Board, the State Secretariat, the state cadre Indian Admin ...

(Home & Vigilance), an

IAS officer The Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is the administrative arm of the All India Services of Government of India. Considered the premier civil service of India, the IAS is one of the three arms of the All India Services along with the Indian ...

, is the administrative head of the department.

Pinarayi Vijayan Pinarayi Vijayan (; born 24 May 1945) is an Indian Communist politician who is the current Chief Minister of Kerala, serving since 25 May 2016. A member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), he is the longest-serving sec ...

is the current Home Minister of Kerala.

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Kerala Police The Kerala Police is the law enforcement agency for the Indian state of Kerala. Kerala Police has its headquarters in Thiruvananthapuram, the state capital. The motto of the force is "Mridhu Bhave Dhrida Kruthye" which means "Soft in Temperamen ...

headed by State Police Chief, Kerala Fire and Rescue Services headed by the Director General, Fire and Rescue Services, Homeguards and Civil Defence, Kerala Prisons & Correctional Services headed by the Director General of Prisons and the Chemical Examiners Laboratory headed by the Chief Chemical Examiner and Prosecution Directorate is headed by the Director General of Prosecution are under the administrative Control of the Home Department. All these departments are inter-linked and co-ordinated by the Home department.

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{{reflist Government departments of Kerala Government of Kerala