# Ministry of Citizen Protection (Greece)

The Ministry of Citizen Protection (Greek: Υπουργείο Προστασίας του Πολίτη) is the government department responsible for Greece's public security services, i.e. the Hellenic Police, the Hellenic Fire Service, Hellenic (Corrections) Prison System, the Agrarian Police and the General Secretariat for Civil Protection.
The ministry existed until 2007 as the Ministry of Public Order (Greek: Υπουργείο Δημόσιας Τάξης). On 19 September 2007, it was merged with the Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization and reduced to a General Secretariat within the Ministry of the Interior. On 7 October 2009, it was revived as the Ministry of Citizen Protection (Υπουργείο Προστασίας του Πολίτη) and was eventually renamed as the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection on 21 June 2012. Following the electoral victory of Syriza in January 2015, it was subordinated to the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction and was headed by an Alternate Minister (Αναπληρωτής Υπουργός). In August 2018, it was reorganized as an independent ministry and was revived as the Ministry of Citizen Protection (Υπουργείο Προστασίας του Πολίτη). The incumbent minister in the Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis is Michalis Chrisochoidis, a member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Athens B2 constituency with New Democracy. Chrisochoidis has served in the role four times previously, as a member of PASOK and an independent politician.

## List of ministers
### Public order (1974–1985)

| Name | Took office | Left office | Party |
| Solon Gikas | July 24, 1974 | January 5, 1976 | |
| Georgios Stamatis | January 5, 1976 | November 28, 1977 | |
| Anastasios Balkos | November 28, 1977 | May 10, 1980 | |
| Dimitrios Davakis | May 10, 1980 | September 17, 1981 | |
| Ioannis Katsadimas (as Acting Minister) | September 17, 1981 | October 21, 1981 | |
| Ioannis Skoularikis | October 21, 1981 | May 9, 1985 | PASOK |
| Alexandros Floros (as Acting Minister) | May 9, 1985 | June 5, 1985 | |
| Athanasios Tsouras | June 5, 1985 | July 26, 1985 | PASOK |

### Interior and public order (1985–1986)

| Name | Took office | Left office | Party |
| Agamemnon Koutsogiorgas | July 26, 1985 | April 25, 1986 | PASOK |

### Public order (1986–2007)

| Name | Took office | Left office | Party |
| Antonis Drosogiannis | April 25, 1986 | June 22, 1988 | PASOK |
| Anastasios Sechiotis | June 22, 1988 | November 8, 1988 | |
| Georgios Petsos | November 18, 1988 | March 17, 1989 | |
| Apostolos Tsochatzopoulos | March 17, 1989 | June 2, 1989 | |
| Panagiotis Markopoulos (as Acting Minister) | June 2, 1989 | July 2, 1989 | |
| Ioannis Kefalogiannis | July 2, 1989 | October 12, 1989 | |
| Dimitrios Manikas | October 12, 1989 | April 11, 1990 | |
| Yiannis Vasiliadis | April 11, 1990 | August 8, 1991 | New Democracy |
| Theodoros Anagnostopoulos | August 8, 1991 | December 3, 1992 | New Democracy |
| Nikolaos Gelestathis | December 3, 1992 | September 14, 1993 | New Democracy |
| Dimitrios Manikas (as Acting Minister) | September 14, 1993 | October 13, 1993 | |
| Stelios Papathemelis | October 13, 1993 | April 4, 1995 | PASOK |
| Sifis Valirakis | April 4, 1995 | January 22, 1996 | PASOK |
| Kostas Geitonas | January 22, 1996 | August 30, 1996 | PASOK |
| Konstantinos Beis | August 30, 1996 | September 25, 1996 | PASOK |
| Georgios Romeos | September 25, 1996 | October 30, 1998 | PASOK |
| Philippos Petsalnikos | October 30, 1998 | February 19, 1999 | PASOK |
| Michalis Chrisochoidis | February 19, 1999 | March 10, 2004 | PASOK |
| Georgios Voulgarakis | March 10, 2004 | February 15, 2006 | New Democracy |
| Vyron Polydoras | February 15, 2006 | September 19, 2007 | New Democracy |

### Citizen protection (2009–2012)

| Name | Took office | Left office | Party |
| Michalis Chrisochoidis | 7 October 2009 | 7 September 2010 | PASOK |
| Christos Papoutsis | 7 September 2010 | 7 March 2012 | PASOK |
| Michalis Chrisochoidis | 7 March 2012 | 17 May 2012 | PASOK |
| Eleftherios Oikonomou | 17 May 2012 | 21 June 2012 | Caretaker government |

### Public order and citizen protection (2012–2015)

| Name | Took office | Left office | Party |
| Nikos Dendias | 21 June 2012 | 10 June 2014 | New Democracy |
| Vassilis Kikilias | 10 June 2014 | 27 January 2015 | New Democracy |

### Public order and citizen protection (alternates, 2015–2018)

| Name | Took office | Left office | Party |
| Giannis Panousis | 27 January 2015 | 27 August 2015 | Syriza |
| Antonis Makrodimitris | 28 August 2015 | 21 September 2015 | Caretaker government |
| Nikos Toskas | 23 September 2015 | 3 August 2018 | Syriza |

### Citizen protection (since 2018)

| Name | Took office | Left office | Party |
| Olga Gerovasili | 29 August 2018 | 9 July 2019 | Syriza |
| Michalis Chrisochoidis | 9 July 2019 | 31 August 2021 | Independent (supported by New Democracy) |
| Takis Theodorikakos [el] | 31 August 2021 | 26 May 2023 | New Democracy |
| Charalampos Lalousis [el] | 26 May 2023 | 27 June 2023 | Caretaker government |
| Notis Mitarachi | 27 June 2023 | 28 July 2023 | New Democracy |
| Giannis Oikonomou [el] | 28 July 2023 | 4 January 2024 | New Democracy |
| Michalis Chrisochoidis | 4 January 2024 | incumbent | New Democracy |