The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the

Republic of Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia ( Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hung ...

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

ministry Ministry may refer to: Government * Ministry (collective executive), the complete body of government ministers under the leadership of a prime minister * Ministry (government department), a department of a government Religion * Christian ...

in the

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. The Ministry is responsible for local and national

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services with

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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

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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 defence ...

, 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 ** 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

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

List of ministers

Ministers of Internal Affairs (1944–1991)

Milentije Popović Milentije Popović ( sr-cyrl, Милентије Поповић, ; 1913 – 1971) was a member of Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) since 1939. During World War II he held various Party and administrative positions. After the war, he became the ...

(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 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)

Political Party:

References

External links

* {{authority control Interior 1991 establishments in Serbia Ministries established in 1991

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...