Ministry of the Interior (Croatia)

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(*) Ministers of Internal Affairs who held the post of Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia while in office.

a. ^ 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.^[3]

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.

• 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)

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

• Official website   (in Croatian)