Jurisdiction Republic of Cyprus | Minister responsible Ionas Nicolaou el | |
The Ministry of Justice and Public Order of the Republic of Cyprus (Greek: Υπουργείο Δικαιοσύνης και Δημοσίας Τάξεως της Κυπριακής Δημοκρατίας, Turkish: Kıbrıs Cumhuriyeti Adalet ve Kamu Düzeni Bakanlığı) is one of the eleven Ministries of the Republic of Cyprus and is the Ministry responsible for the close review and consideration of the need to reform the existing legislation in a wide field of public and private law, such as criminal law, legislation that falls within the general concept of the administration of justice, family law, legislation in the fields of equality, human rights, the treatment of offenders and other.
Under the Ministry of Justice and Public Order fall agencies like the Cyprus Police and the Cyprus Prisons Department.
History
The Ministry of Justice immediately after the independence (from the 1959 interim period to 1982) was hosted in the Government Buildings in Demosthenes Severis Avenue known as Chief Colonial Secretary Office.
In 1982 the Ministry moved to Grivas Dighenis Avenue in a building opposite the Kykkos monastery dependency at Engomi, Nicosia where it remained up to 1993.
After the renaming of the Ministry to Ministry of Justice and Public Order in 1993 it has moved to Heliopouleos Street in the building known as the "Ellinas Clinic" where it remained up to the year 2000. Since then it has moved to 125 Athalassas Avenue, Strovolos, Nicosia.