Ministry of the Interior (Croatia)

Ministry of the Interior of the
Republic of Croatia

Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova Republike Hrvatske
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Agency overview
Formed	1990
Jurisdiction	Government of Croatia
Headquarters	Ulica grada Vukovara 33, Zagreb
Employees	25,641 (2015)
Annual budget	HRK 4.818 billion (2015)
Minister responsible	Vlaho Orepić
Website	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.

List of ministers

Minister	Party		Term start	Term end	Days in office
Josip Boljkovac		HDZ	30 May 1990	2 July 1991
Onesin Cvitan		HDZ	2 July 1991	17 July 1991
Ivan Vekić		HDZ	17 July 1991	15 April 1992
Ivan Jarnjak		HDZ	15 April 1992	16 December 1996
Ivan Penić		HDZ	16 December 1996	27 January 2000
Šime Lučin		SDP	27 January 2000	23 December 2003
Marijan Mlinarić		HDZ	23 December 2003	17 February 2005
Ivica Kirin		HDZ	17 February 2005	12 January 2008
Berislav Rončević		HDZ	12 January 2008	10 October 2008
Tomislav Karamarko		Ind.	10 October 2008	23 December 2011
Ranko Ostojić		SDP	23 December 2011	22 January 2016
Vlaho Orepić		MOST	22 January 2016	Incumbent

Role

The Ministry of the Interior deals with administrative and other tasks related to the following:

• 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

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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: Law enforcement in Croatia

The General Police Directorate is in charge of the national police. There are twenty geographical commands, and the national body is organised as follows:

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

Notes

nb 1. ^ Karamarko was appointed in the HDZ-dominated Sanader cabinet as a non-party minister. In 2009 he continued to serve in the Kosor cabinet and formally joined HDZ in September 2011.

External links

• (Croatian)