Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia)

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia (Mинистарство унутрашњих послова; abbr. MUP) or the Ministry of Interior, is a cabinet-level ministry in the Government of Serbia.

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 personal identification to citizens.

The current minister is Ivica Dačić, in office since 2 May 2024. 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
 * Cabinet of Minister:
 * 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 Police Directorate
 * General Police Directorate
 * Traffic Police Directorate
 * Border Police Directorate
 * Directorate for Administrative Affairs
 * Center of Operations
 * Directorate for Analytics
 * Directorate of Technology
 * Directorate of Connection and Cryptography
 * Coordination Directorate for Kosovo and Metohija
 * Regional Police directorates
 * 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
 * Sector for Internal Police Control
 * Sector for Search and Rescue

Special police units

 * Gendarmery
 * Special Anti-Terrorist Unit
 * Helicopter unit
 * Police Brigade (Belgrade)
 * Unit for Security of Objects and Personalities
 * Unit for Witness Protection

Ministers of Internal Affairs (1944–1991)

 * Milentije Popović (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 (1989–1991)

Ministers of Internal Affairs (1991–present)
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