Ministry of the Interior Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova
Emblem of the Ministry of the Interior
Location of Headquarters
Ministry overview
Formed	31 May 1990
Type	Ministry in the Government of Croatia
Jurisdiction	Croatia
Headquarters	Vukovarska 33, Zagreb, Croatia
Employees	24,942 (2025)[1]
Budget	€1.496 billion (2025 budget)[2]
Website	mup.gov.hr
Minister
Currently	Davor Božinović since 9 June 2017

The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Ministarstvo unutarnjih poslova Republike Hrvatske or 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.

The Ministry of the Interior deals with administrative and other tasks related to the following:^[3]

• 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,^[4] and the national body is organised as follows:^[5]

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

  Croatian Democratic Union (9)
  Social Democratic Party (2)
  The Bridge (1)
  Independent (1)

No.	Portrait	Minister of the Interior	Took office	Left office	Time in office	Party	Cabinet
1		Boljkovac, JosipJosip Boljkovac (1920–2014)	30 May 1990	2 July 1991	1 year, 33 days	HDZ	Mesić Manolić
2		Cvitan, OnesinOnesin Cvitan (born 1939)	2 July 1991	17 July 1991	15 days	HDZ	Manolić
3		Vekić, IvanIvan Vekić (1938–2014)	17 July 1991	15 April 1992	273 days	HDZ	Gregurić
4		Jarnjak, IvanIvan Jarnjak [hr] (born 1941)	15 April 1992	16 December 1996	4 years, 245 days	HDZ	Gregurić Šarinić Valentić Mateša
5		Penić, IvanIvan Penić [hr] (born 1954)	16 December 1996	27 January 2000	3 years, 42 days	HDZ	Mateša
6		Lučin, ŠimeŠime Lučin (born 1958)	27 January 2000	23 December 2003	3 years, 330 days	SDP	Račan I–II
7		Mlinarić, MarijanMarijan Mlinarić [hr] (1943–2007)	23 December 2003	17 February 2005	1 year, 56 days	HDZ	Sanader I
8		Kirin, IvicaIvica Kirin (born 1970)	17 February 2005	12 January 2008	2 years, 329 days	HDZ	Sanader I
9		Rončević, BerislavBerislav Rončević (born 1960)	12 January 2008	10 October 2008	272 days	HDZ	Sanader II
10		Karamarko, TomislavTomislav Karamarko[a] (born 1959)	10 October 2008	23 December 2011	272 days	Independent HDZ	Sanader II Kosor
11		Ostojić, RankoRanko Ostojić* (born 1962)	23 December 2011	22 January 2016	4 years, 30 days	SDP	Milanović
12		Orepić, VlahoVlaho Orepić [hr] (born 1968)	22 January 2016	27 April 2017	1 year, 95 days	Most	Orešković Plenković I
13		Božinović, DavorDavor Božinović* (born 1961)	9 June 2017	Incumbent	8 years, 273 days	HDZ	Plenković I–II–III

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

• Official website (in Croatian)