- Ministry of the Interior (Croatia)
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Ministry of the Interior Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova 
Agency overview Formed 1990 Jurisdiction Government of Croatia Headquarters Zagreb Annual budget 4.785 billion HRK (2010)[1] Minister responsible Tomislav Karamarko, Minister of the Interior Website www.mup.hr The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova Republike Hrvatske, MUP RH) is the ministry in the Government of Croatia which is in charge of state security among other roles. Croatian Police is a public service of the Ministry of the Interior.
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Role
The Ministry of the Interior deals with administrative and other tasks related to the following:[2]
- policing and criminal police activities that involve protection of life and personal security of people and property and the prevention and detection of crime;
- tracing and capturing of perpetrators of criminal offences and their bringing before the competent authorities;
- maintaining of public order and the protection of particular persons, citizens, facilities and premises;
- conducting of technical crime investigations and expert analysis;
- road traffic safety;
- state border protection;
- movement and stay of aliens and their admission;
- travel documents for crossing the state border;
- safeguarding at public gatherings;
- nationality affairs;
- issuing of identity cards and the registration of residence and sojourn;
- issuing of driving licences and the registration of motor vehicles;
- procurement, keeping and carrying of weapons and ammunition;
- explosive devices and substances;
- protection of the constitutional order;
- special police force tasks and the supervision over security agencies.
The Ministry is also responsible for the following: keeping the records and statistics concerning the internal affairs, the internal affairs information system and the education and training of the Ministry’s officers.
Organization
Ministry headquarters in Zagreb
- Minister's Cabinet (Kabinet ministra)
- General Police Directorate (Ravnateljstvo policije)
- Material and Financial Affairs Directorate (Uprava za materijalno financijske poslove)
- Directorate for Development, Equipment and Support (Uprava za razvoj, opremanje i potporu)
- Legal Affairs and Human Resources Directorate (Uprava za pravne poslove i ljudske potencijale)
- Administrative and Inspection Affairs Directorate (Uprava za upravne i inspekcijske poslove)
- European Integration and International Affairs Directorate (Uprava za europske integracije i međunarodne odnose)
- Special Security Affairs Directorate (Uprava za posebne poslove sigurnosti )
General Police Directorate
Main article: Croatian PoliceThe General Police Directorate is in charge of the national police. There are twenty geographical commands,[3] and the national body is organised as follows:[4]
Police Directorate
- Public Order Department
- Command of Intervention Police
- Department for Road Traffic Safety
- Bomb Disposal Department
Criminal Police Directorate
- General Crime Department
- Anti-terrorism and War Crime Department
- Organised Crime Department
- Economic Crime and Corruption Department
- Drugs Department
- Special Criminal Investigations Department
- Criminal Intelligence Analysis Department
- Protection Unit
- International Police Co-operation Department
Border Police Directorate
- Neighbouring Countries Department
- State Border Protection Department
- Maritime and Airport Police Department
- Illegal Migration Department
- Centre for Training of Dog Handlers and Dog Dressure
- Reception Centre for Foreigners
- Mobile Unit for Static Border Control
The following units exists at the same level:
- Operational Police Communication Centre
- Forensic Centre
- Police Academy
List of ministers
Minister Party Term start Term end Josip Boljkovac Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) 30 May 1990 2 July 1991 Onesin Cvitan Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) 2 July 1991 17 July 1991 Ivan Vekić Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) 17 July 1991 15 April 1992 Ivan Jarnjak Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) 15 April 1992 16 December 1996 Ivan Penić Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) 16 December 1996 27 January 2000 Šime Lučin Social Democratic Party (SDP) 27 January 2000 23 December 2003 Marijan Mlinarić Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) 23 December 2003 17 February 2005 Ivica Kirin Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) 17 February 2005 2 January 2008 Berislav Rončević Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) 12 January 2008 10 October 2008 Tomislav Karamarko Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) (from 25 September 2011)[5] 10 October 2008 Incumbent References
- ^ "Odluka o proglašenju državnog proračuna za 2010. godinu - II. Posebni dio" (in Croatian) (PDF). Narodne novine. 2 December 2009. http://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2009_12_151_3690.html. Retrieved 16 July 2010.
- ^ Ministry of the Interior
- ^ http://www.interpol.int/Public/Region/Europe/pjsystems/Charts/croatia1.pdf
- ^ http://www.interpol.int/Public/Region/Europe/pjsystems/Charts/croatia.pdf
- ^ "Karamarko ušao u HDZ bez odobrenja Visokog časnog suda". Večernji list. 25 September 2011. http://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/karamarko-usao-hdz-bez-odobrenja-visokog-casnog-suda-clanak-330027. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
External links
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