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

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in the

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. 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

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to citizens. The current minister is

Bratislav Gašić Bratislav Gašić ( sr-cyr, Братислав Гашић; born 30 June 1967) is a Serbian politician serving as minister of internal affairs since 2022. A former member of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), he served as the minister of defenc ...

, in office since 26 October 2022. 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 * Ministers cabinet: ** 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 investigation police department ** Police department ** Department for Security ** Unit for protections ** Traffic police department ** Border police department ** Department for administrative affairs ** Operations center ** Department for analytics ** Department of information technology ** Department of connection and cryptography ** Coordination department for

Kosovo and Metohija The Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija ( sr, Косово и Метохиja, Kosovo i Metohija; sq, Kosova dhe Metohija), commonly known as Kosovo and abbreviated to Kosmet or KiM, is an autonomous province defined by the constituti ...

** Regional police departments * 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 * Internal police control sector * Sector for search and rescue

Special police units

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* Special Anti-Terrorist Unit * Helicopter unit * Police Brigade

List of ministers

Ministers of Internal Affairs (1944–1991)

* Milentije Popović (1944–1946) *

Slobodan Penezić Slobodan "Krcun" Penezić ( sr-cyr, Слободан Пенезић Крцун; 2 July 1918 – 6 November 1964) was a Yugoslav communist politician who served as Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Serbia. ...

(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 Radmilo Bogdanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Радмило Богдановић; 7 October 1934 – 25 October 2014) was a high-ranking official of the Socialist Party of Serbia. He served as Minister of the Interior during major protests in 1991, aft ...

(1989–1991)

Ministers of Internal Affairs (1991–present)

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References

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Interior Interior may refer to: Arts and media * ''Interior'' (Degas) (also known as ''The Rape''), painting by Edgar Degas * ''Interior'' (play), 1895 play by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck * ''The Interior'' (novel), by Lisa See * Interior de ...

1991 establishments in Serbia Ministries established in 1991 Serbia