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Minister of the Interior (France)

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Member of
  
Cabinet

Term length
  
No fixed term

Nominator
  
The Prime Minister

Minister of the Interior (France)

Reports to
  
President of the Republic The Prime Minister

Seat
  
Hôtel de Beauveau, Paris 8e, France

Appointer
  
President of the Republic

The Ministry of the Interior (French: Ministère de l'Intérieur, [ministʁ də lɛ̃teˈʁjœʁ]) in France is one of the most important French government cabinet positions.

Responsibilities

The Minister of the Interior is responsible for the following:

  • The general interior security of the country, with respect to criminal acts or natural catastrophes
  • including the major law-enforcement forces (see Police in France)
  • the French National Police
  • the French Gendarmerie for its police operations (as a part of the French armed forces, the Gendarmerie is administratively under the purview of the Ministry of Defence)
  • Civil defence and Security Directorate - Securite Civile
  • the sub-directorate of Sapeurs-Pompiers or Firefighters
  • the granting of identity documents (passports, identity cards) and driving licenses through the network of préfectures;
  • relations between the central government and local governments;
  • logistics and organization of political elections, at the national and prefectoral levels (but the results of the elections are overseen by the Constitutional Council or the administrative courts);
  • regulation of immigration and preventing illegal immigration;
  • integration of legal immigrants (professionally, linguistically, housing, etc.);
  • all départemental préfets and sub-prefects are subordinate to the Minister of the Interior.

    • The Minister of Interior also take on the role of former Ministre des cultes and is formally consulted in the process of appointment of Catholic diocesan bishops (Briand-Ceretti Agreement). The Minister of Cults used to be a fully-fledged minister, but no longer exist since 1912.

    While the ministry of the Interior supervises police forces, it does not supervise criminal enquiries; criminal enquiries are conducted under the supervision of the judiciary.

    The Ministry's headquarters are located on the place Beauvau, facing the Élysée Palace. "Place Beauvau" is often used as a metonym for the ministry.

    The current Minister of the Interior is Bruno Le Roux.

    References

    Minister of the Interior (France) Wikipedia
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