Ministry of the Interior (Romaia)
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| Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών | |
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| Ministry overview | |
|---|---|
| Formed | 1805 |
| Preceding Ministry |
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| Type | Ministry |
| Jurisdiction | Government of Romaia |
| Headquarters | Constantinoupoli |
| Annual budget | £18.8 billion (2019) |
| Minister responsible | |
| Website | eso.cyb.ra |
The Ministry of the Interior (Greek: Υπουργείο Εσωτερικών) is a government agency of Romaia, headquartered in Constantinoupoli. It is cabinet-level ministry of Romaia.
Responsibilities
The ministry is responsible for internal security and the protection of the constitutional order, for civil protection against disasters and terrorism, for displaced persons and administrative questions. It is host to the Standing Committee of Interior Ministers and also drafts all passport, identity card, firearms, and explosives legislation.
The Ministry of the Interior is political authority for the administration of internal affairs. It controls the National Police (Εθνική Αστυνομία), the Fire Fighters Corps (Σώμα Πυροσβεστικών) and the Prefect. The minister herefore sits on the High Council of Defence.
The main functions of the ministry are as follows:
- Ensuring the regular organisation of the elected organs of the local entities and their correct functioning, regulating local finances and electoral services, looking after vital records and registry offices, and collaborating with local entities;
- Protection of public order and security and co-ordination of the police forces;
- General administration and general representation of the government in its territories;
- Protection of civil rights, including religious belief, citizenship, immigration, and asylum.
Organisation
The following departments, directorates, special commissions, and other offices and secretariats of the Ministry of Interior are as follows:
- General Secretariate of the Interior
- State direction of the Interior and Territorial affairs
- State direction of Public security
- State direction of foreigners
- State direction of Civil Defence
The minister has the autority above different service, he also has the General Inspectorate of Administration and the Superior Council of the Territorial Administration of the State.
General Secretariate of the Interior
The general secretariat, headed by the secretary general, is responsible for supporting the other departments of the ministry, either via administrative missions (budget, human resources, real estate, legal advice, etc.), or via cross-cutting missions and overseeing public administrative establishments (EPA).
It is made up of departments and services:
- State direction of Modernization and Territorial Action;
- State direction of Civil Liberties and Legal Affairs;
- Human Resources Management;
- State direction of Performance Evaluation, and Financial and Real Estate Affairs;
- Digital management;
State direction of the Interior and Territorial affairs
State direction of Public security
The National Police national police comes under the authority of the Minister of the Interior, subject to the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to the exercise of the judicial police. The National Gendarmerie is an armed force set up to watch over the execution of the laws. The judicial police is one of its essential missions. The national gendarmerie is intended to ensure public security and public order, particularly in rural and peri-urban areas, as well as on communication routes.
The National Gendarmerie is placed under the authority of the Minister of the Defence, responsible for its organization, its management, its preparation for use and the military infrastructure which it requires.
State direction of foreigners
The State direction of foreigners in Romaia is responsible for designing and implementing public policies concerning immigration, whether legal or illegal; reception and the acquisition and withdrawal of Romaian nationality and questions of the right to asylum.
State direction of Civil Defence
Territorial administration
The territorial organ of coordination of public security services is the Prefecture which coordinates internal affairs, policing and civil security within limits of departments and metropolies.
Prefecture is headed by an appointed by the Ministry of the Interior prefect. The prefect depends hierarchically on the Minister of the Interior, but the President of the Government and the other ministers, in the exercise of the power of political-administrative direction, can issue specific directives to the prefects. The prefect heads a territorial office of the Government. Deputy prefects and assistant prefects are assigned to each of these offices, in charge of the organizational units into which they are divided (cabinet office, functional areas, etc.); moreover, the vicarious functions of the prefect are attributed to a vice prefect.
In exercising the aforesaid coordination functions, the prefect is assisted by a permanent provincial conference, presided over by him and made up of the heads of all the peripheral administrative structures of the State which carry out their activities in the department as well as representatives of local authorities. The titular prefect of the prefecture-territorial government office in the regional capital is also assisted by a permanent conference made up of representatives of the state's regional peripheral structures, to which representatives of the region may be invited.
As a departamental public safety authority, the prefect has general responsibility for public order and safety in the province, and supervises the implementation of the directives issued on the subject; ensures unity of direction and coordination of the tasks and activities of the public security officers and agents; it has the public force and any other forces placed at its disposal and coordinates its activities. The prefecture coordinates law enforcement by different agencies such as the National Police, National Gendarmerie and Municipal Police.
The prefect is responsible in matters of civil defence. In fact, he prepares the plan to deal with the emergency throughout the department and takes care of its implementation, assumes the unitary direction of the emergency services to be activated at the provincial level, coordinating them with the interventions of the mayors of the municipalities concerned, and adopts all the necessary measures to ensure first aid.
In the exercise of his functions, the prefect adopts administrative measures, usually in the form of an ordinance or a decree.