# Ministry of Internal Affairs (Serbia)

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: Mинистарство унутрашњих послова, romanized: Ministarstvo unutrašnjih poslova; abbr. MUP) or the Ministry of Interior, is a cabinet-level ministry in the Government of Serbia.
The Ministry is responsible for local and national Police services with municipal and district branches throughout the country. Its core responsibilities include: crime prevention, criminal apprehension, investigations, customs and border control, counter-terrorism, anti-corruption, anti-narcotics and disaster relief. The ministry is also responsible for issuing passports and personal identification to citizens.
The current minister is Ivica Dačić, in office since 2 May 2024. As of August 2016, the Ministry of Internal Affairs has a total of 42,817 employees, of whom 28,266 are uniformed officers. Of those, 70.2% have secondary education, while 27.8% have higher or high education.

## Organization

* Minister of Interior
* Cabinet of Minister:
** Bureau for Strategic Planning
** Bureau for International Cooperation and European Integration
** Bureau for Complaints and Representations
** Bureau for Cooperation with the Media
* Service of Internal Control
* Secretary of State
* Secretariat:
** Department for Normative-Legal and General Legal Affairs
*** Department of Normative-Legal Affairs
*** Department of General-Legal Affairs
** Department of housing
* Directorate of Police:
** Crime Police Directorate
** General Police Directorate
** Traffic Police Directorate
** Border Police Directorate
** Directorate for Administrative Affairs
** Center of Operations
** Directorate for Analytics
** Directorate of Technology
** Directorate of Connection and Cryptography
** Coordination Directorate for Kosovo and Metohija
** Regional Police directorates
* Finance, Human Resources and Joint Affairs Sector:
** Department of Human Resources
** Department for Joint Affairs
** Department for Nutrition & Accommodations
** Department for Professional Education Training, Development and Science
* Sector for Internal Police Control
* Sector for Search and Rescue

### Special police units

* Gendarmery
* Special Anti-Terrorist Unit
* Helicopter unit
* Police Brigade (Belgrade)
* Unit for Security of Objects and Personalities
* Unit for Witness Protection

## List of ministers
### Ministers of Internal Affairs (1944–1991)

* Milentije Popović (1944–1946)
* Slobodan Penezić (1946–1953)
* Vojin Lukić (1953–1962)
* Vladan Bojanić (1962–1963)
* Milisav Lukić (1963–1965)
* Životije Srba Savić (1965–1966)
* Slavko Zečević (1966–1976)
* Viobran Stanojević (1976–1982)
* Svetomir Lalović (1982–1989)
* Radmilo Bogdanović (1989–1991)

### Ministers of Internal Affairs (1991–present)

Political Party:  SPS  DOS  SPO  ND / LS  DSS  SNS  PS
| No. | Minister | Took office | Left office | Time in office | Party | Cabinet |
| 1 | Bogdanović, RadmiloRadmilo Bogdanović (1934–2014) | 11 February 1991 | 30 May 1991 | 108 days | SPS | Zelenović |
| 2 | Sokolović, ZoranZoran Sokolović (1938–2001) | 30 May 1991 | 20 March 1997 | 5 years, 294 days | SPS | Zelenović Božović Šainović Marjanović I |
| – | Stojičić, RadovanRadovan Stojičić (1951–1997) Acting | 20 March 1997 | 11 April 1997 † | 22 days | SPS | Marjanović I |
| – | Đorđević, VlastimirVlastimir Đorđević (born 1948) Acting | 11 April 1997 | 15 April 1997 | 4 days | SPS | Marjanović I |
| 3 | Stojiljković, VlajkoVlajko Stojiljković (1937–2002) | 15 April 1997 | 9 October 2000 | 3 years, 177 days | SPS | Marjanović I–II |
| – | Marjanović, MirkoMirko Marjanović (1937–2006) Acting | 11 October 2000 | 24 October 2000 | 13 days | SPS | Marjanović II |
| | Tomović, SlobodanSlobodan Tomović (born 1946) Co-Minister | 24 October 2000 | 25 January 2001 | 93 days | SPS | Minić |
| | Prelević, BožidarBožidar Prelević (born 1959) Co-Minister | 24 October 2000 | 25 January 2001 | 93 days | DOS | Minić |
| | Nikčević, StevanStevan Nikčević (born 1961) Co-Minister | 24 October 2000 | 25 January 2001 | 93 days | SPO | Minić |
| 4 | Mihajlović, DušanDušan Mihajlović (born 1948) | 25 January 2001 | 3 March 2004 | 3 years, 38 days | LS | Đinđić–Živković |
| 5 | Jočić, DraganDragan Jočić (born 1960) | 3 March 2004 | 7 July 2008 | 4 years, 126 days | DSS | Koštunica I–II |
| 6 | Dačić, IvicaIvica Dačić (born 1966) | 7 July 2008 | 27 April 2014 | 5 years, 294 days | SPS | Cvetković Dačić |
| 7 | Stefanović, NebojšaNebojša Stefanović (born 1976) | 27 April 2014 | 28 October 2020 | 6 years, 184 days | SNS | Vučić I–II Brnabić |
| 8 | Vulin, AleksandarAleksandar Vulin (born 1972) | 28 October 2020 | 26 October 2022 | 1 year, 363 days | PS | Brnabić II |
| 9 | Gašić, BratislavBratislav Gašić (born 1967) | 26 October 2022 | 2 May 2024 | 1 year, 189 days | SNS | Brnabić III |
| (6) | Dačić, IvicaIvica Dačić (born 1966) | 2 May 2024 | Incumbent | 294 days | SPS | Vučević |