Ministry of the Interior (Croatia)

Ministry of the Interior of the
Republic of Croatia

Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova Republike Hrvatske
Agency overview
Formed	1990
Jurisdiction	Government of Croatia
Headquarters	Ulica grada Vukovara 33, Zagreb 45°47′59″N 15°57′50″E / 45.7998525°N 15.9638857°ECoordinates: 45°47′59″N 15°57′50″E / 45.7998525°N 15.9638857°E
Employees	25,641 (2015)[1]
Annual budget	[2] HRK 4.818 billion (2015)[3]
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
Boljkovac, JosipJosip Boljkovac		HDZ	30 May 1990	2 July 1991	398
Cvitan, OnesinOnesin Cvitan		HDZ	2 July 1991	17 July 1991	15
Vekić, IvanIvan Vekić		HDZ	17 July 1991	15 April 1992	273
Jarnjak, IvanIvan Jarnjak		HDZ	15 April 1992	16 December 1996	1,706
Penić, IvanIvan Penić		HDZ	16 December 1996	27 January 2000	1,137
Lučin, ŠimeŠime Lučin		SDP	27 January 2000	23 December 2003	1,426
Mlinarić, MarijanMarijan Mlinarić		HDZ	23 December 2003	17 February 2005	422
Kirin, IvicaIvica Kirin		HDZ	17 February 2005	12 January 2008	1,059
Rončević, BerislavBerislav Rončević		HDZ	12 January 2008	10 October 2008	272
Karamarko, TomislavTomislav Karamarko		Ind. ^[nb 1]	10 October 2008	23 December 2011	1,169
Ostojić, RankoRanko Ostojić		SDP	23 December 2011	22 January 2016	1,491
Orepić, VlahoVlaho Orepić		MOST	22 January 2016	Incumbent	329

Role

The Ministry of the Interior deals with administrative and other tasks related to the following:^[4]

• 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

The General Police Directorate is in charge of the national police. There are twenty geographical commands,^[5] and the national body is organised as follows:^[6]

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.^[7]

References

1. Blažević, Robert (2015): Upravna znanost, p. 284. ISBN 9789538034039
   "...(on day 19. February 2015)."
2. "Državni proračun 2014. godina - Republika Hrvatska - Ministarstvo financija". Mfin.hr. 2014-06-30. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
3. "Državni proračun 2015. godina - Republika Hrvatska - Ministarstvo financija". Mfin.hr. 2015-06-30. Retrieved 2016-05-03.
4. Ministry of the Interior
5. http://www.interpol.int/Public/Region/Europe/pjsystems/Charts/croatia1.pdf
6. http://www.interpol.int/Public/Region/Europe/pjsystems/Charts/croatia.pdf
7. "Karamarko ušao u HDZ bez odobrenja Visokog časnog suda". Večernji list. 25 September 2011. Retrieved 8 November 2011.

External links

• Official website (Croatian)