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| {{flagicon|United States}} [[United States]] ||[[United States Department of Homeland Security|Department of Homeland Security]]<br>[[United States Department of the Interior|Department of the Interior]]|| [[United States Secretary of Homeland Security|Secretary of Homeland Security]]<br>[[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]] || [[Janet Napolitano]]<br>[[Ken Salazar]] |
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| {{flagicon|Uruguay}} [[Uruguay]] || [[List of Minister for the Interior (Uruguay)|Ministry of Interior]] || Minister of the Interior || [[Daisy Tourné]] |
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| {{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[Venezuela]] || || Minister of Interior and Justice || [[Ramón Rodríguez Chacín]] |
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Revision as of 11:00, 21 January 2009
An interior ministry (sometimes ministry of home affairs) is a government ministry typically responsible for policing, national security, and immigration matters. The ministry is often headed by a minister of the interior or minister of home affairs. In some countries, matters relating to the maintenance of law and order and the administration of justice are the responsibility of a separate justice ministry.
In countries with a federal constitution, an interior minister will often be found at both the federal and state levels. Similarly, autonomous entities and dependent territories may also have interior ministers.
In the United States, the Department of the Interior has a radically different function, namely the management and conservation of land owned by the federal government. The functions that fall under what most other countries call an "interior ministry" are under other government departments—mostly the Department of Homeland Security, with some others falling under the Department of Justice.
Incumbent interior ministers
See also
- Department of Public Safety (United States)