ABOUT

Department of sovereignty, the Ministry in charge of Security has always been part of the government nomenclature, and this from the first years of independence. Due to its strategic nature, the Ministry of Security has long been under the supervision of National Defense. It has also often changed its name: State Secretariat for Defense and Security or State Secretariat for Internal Security: Minister responsible for Internal Security.

It was from the revolution of March 1991 that the Security Department was attached to the Ministry of the Interior or Territorial Administration. It was not until the early 2000s to see the creation of a ministry dedicated solely to Security.

With the creation of its own Civil Protection service, the Security Department took the name of the Ministry of Security and Civil Protection. In 2002, the word “interior” was added to this denomination.

The creation of an autonomous department in charge of Security was accompanied by the regrouping under the same ministry of the Police, the Gendarmerie and the National Guard.
Military forces, placed under the administration of the Minister of Defense, the
National Gendarmerie and the National Guard are now attached, for employment, to the Minister of Internal Security and Civil Protection.

The regrouping of these different forces under the same tutelage is a revolution in the history of the management of the armed and security forces in the world. Indeed, the Mail is one of the first countries to have experimented with the collective use of all the security forces under the authority of the same ministry.

Practice has today demonstrated the validity of the experience which allows the Security Department to correctly carry out its missions thanks to the rational use and judicious use of its various components.

MISSION

The Ministry of Internal Security and Civil Protection develops and implements the national policy on internal security and civil protection. As such, it is responsible in particular for the following actions:

- Ensure respect for the law and the maintenance of public order and security throughout the national territory;
- Implement measures to prepare and employ security forces for maintaining order;