Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy

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Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy
Ministero dell'Interno del Regno d'Italia
Ministero Interno - logo - Repubblica Sociale Italiana - ISR - post 2005.jpeg
Logo used by the Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy since 2002
Ministry overview
Formed March 17, 1861 (1861-03-17)
Type Ministry
Jurisdiction Italian Government
Headquarters Palazzo del Viminale
Motto Viviamo per Servire (En: We live to serve)
Employees 425,000
Annual budget £ 1,100,450,000
Minister responsible Angelo Spaniccia
Ministry executive Benito Landolfini, Secretary General
Parent department Italian Government


The Ministry of Interior of the Kingdom of Italy (It: Ministero dell'Interno del Regno d'Italia) is the key Ministry which has the responsibility for policing, emergency and rescue management, national security, religious affairs, regulation of relations with the Catholic Church and other allowed religions, administration of the fund for worship, supervision and co-ordination of local governments, institutions of public welfare and charity, public administration, the organization and superintendence of state archives, demographics, and immigration matters. The ministry is headed by the Minister of the Interior; although the incumbent holder is Minister Secretary of State Angelo Spaniccia, ordinarily the Chief of Government holds the Interiors portfolio.
The Ministry of Interior has a fundamental importance in the economy of public administration, as his powers as varied as important, that it can be defined as the principal instrument of power. The main services under the Ministry of the Interior are primarily those relating to the maintenance of public order and public security.

Central organization

The ministerial central organization is characterized by three levels of top hierarchy:

  • Senior management, consisting of the Minister, his own staff bodies, the Undersecretaries of State and of the Secretary General;
  • Functional management, consisting of Directorates General, governed by the Directors General, formed according to a grouping criterion based on the input;
  • Divisions, which are the operational macro-units.

Within the Ministry of Interior, communications between the Directorates-General are secondary to internal communications within the individual Directorates, and there is no high environmental variability. The structure of the Ministry ensures that the Directors General assume sub-organizational objectives limited to their function, allowing senior management to see the organization as a whole and to ensure the smooth flow of processes. The functional grouping of activities offers a vision based on the specialization of human resources skills: administrative processes unfold across multiple functions, while the same function can be unfolded by multiple processes. As a peculiarity of the Ministry of Interior, all top officials, as well as a significant part of Minister's staff offices members are Prefects.
The Ministry is therefore divided into 10 Directorates General, each of which is in turn a sum of central and peripheral offices:

  • Directorate General for the Civil Administration of the Interior (Direzione Generale per l'Amministrazione Civile dell'Interno)
  • Directorate General for the Public Security (Direzione Generale per la Pubblica Sicurezza); the Directorate-General represents a partial exception to the functional model because it is organized in order to function almost autonomously.
  • Directorate General for the Demography and Race (Direzione Generale per la Demografia e la Razza)
  • Directorate General for the General Affairs and Civlian Personnel (Direzione Generale per gli Affari Generali e il Personale Civile)
  • Directorate General for the Religious Affairs (Direzione Generale per gli Affari Religiosi)
  • Directorate General for the Fund for Worship (Direzione Generale per il Fondo per il Culto)
  • Directorate General for the Fire-fighting Services and Civil Defence (Direzione Generale per i Servizi Antincendio e la Difesa Civile)
  • Directorate General for the Public assistance (Direzione Generale per la Pubblica Assistenza)
  • Directorate General for the Welfare Activities (Direzione Generale per le Attività di Assistenza sociale)
  • Directorate General for the State Archives (Direzione Generale per gli Archivi di Stato)

Minister of Interior

The Minister of Interior is the supreme hierarchic apex of the entire Ministry. of his ministry: he has the power to give orders and to subject, to control all organs subordinate to him, to revoke inappropriate acts may be adopted by them, to delegate the exercise of certain functions and to take upon for himself powers of subordinate organs and administrative procedures dealt with by Ministerial organs. The Minister has management responsibilities towards the entire ministry; he can also assign these management functions to subordinate offices, also through the delegation. Therefore the political leadership, along with functions of policy guidance, has broad functional, supervisory and operational responsibilities.
The hierarchy also finds application in the system of administrative protection: there is, in fact, the possibility to appeal to the higher authority hierarchic body that has adopted an administrative act. Such an action, possible precisely because of the position of supremacy, is recognized to the addressee of the administrative act that is considered flawed, which can request its annulment, for reasons of both legitimacy and merit.
The character of hierarchic superiority is somewhat different in the field of Public Security. The Minister of Interior is the National Authority of Public Security and, as such, is in charge of the security preservation in all the national territory (including the Italian Empire); powers related to this function are exercised directly by the Minister or, through delegation, by the Director General of Public Security. Likewise, is the Minister the authority who takes all necessary measures to maintain and preserve order and public security and the Administration of Public Security works on his delegation and guidance, with the partial exception of the Provincial and Local Authorities of Public Security, which have tasks conferred to them by law and not by Minister's decision.
The Minister has at his immediate disposal three office types: secretariat, staff offices and ministry offices (including the secretary general). While staff and ministry offices are fully hierachically subordinated to the Minister, they are designed to provide smooth service and course of administrative activities. On the other hand, both the secretariat and staff offices are tasked with the support of the Minister's own policy making rather than the execution and implementation of policies decided by the Minister himself. Secretariat offices (Minister's Secretariat, Personal Secretariat and Technical Secretariat, for a total of 45 officials and employées) are tasked with the close support of the Minister's personal action and activities.
The Minister may also appoint up to six trusted Advisers.

Minister's staff offices

The Minister has some bureaucratic bodies wich help him to direct the whole Ministry and to conduct the political activity towards parliamentary and government steps; these offices are the Cabinet of the Minister and the Secretariat Offices for Minister and Undesecretaries of State. The Research Office and the Legislative Office are experts staffs at the service not only of political leaders but also of the whole ministry apparatus for examining complex cases and the formulation of draft regulations.

Cabinet of the Minister

The Cabinet of the Minister (It: Gabinetto del Ministro) works with the Minister for the effective definition of objectives, the development of public policies, assessing their implementation and propaganda activities. It deals with the connection of the political leadership with the Administration and sometimes it can be tasked with the carrying out of certain functions.
The Chief of Cabinet is a Prefect First Class, assisted by two Deputy Chiefs of Cabinet, who hold the rank of Prefect of the Second Class. The Cabinet consists of 11 offices, each headed by a Vice-Prefect, in turn assisted by other officials of the prefectural career, for a total of 170 units. The Cabinet offices are:

  • Office I - General Affairs
  • Office II - Public Order and Security
  • Office III - Public Aid and Civil Protection
  • Office IV - Internal Affairs
  • Office V - Territorial Affairs
  • Office VI - Demography and protection of the race
  • Office VII - Immigration
  • Office VIII - International Affairs
  • Office IX - Special Secretariat and Cypher Service
  • Office X - Ceremonial
  • Office XI - Financial Planning and Management

Office I - General Affairs

The Office deals with support to the Chief of Cabinet in the activity of direction and coordination to the other staff offices and with the Administration. It is responsible for the internal management of personnel and relations with fascist labour unions, for general affairs and for supervision of officials assigned to staff offices. The office is also responsible for the management of information systems and documentation, also archival. Finally, it deals with the preliminary practices for the Awards and Decorations.

Office II - Public Order and Security

The Office is an particularly sensitive body, because it operates as the connection point in the field of public order and security; it holds relations with the relevant Divisions on the subject and with the network of public order and security offices of the prefectures about affairs of political interest. The Office assists the Minister in issues relating to the planning policies and direction of the Police Forces, including the problems of organization. It analyses issues of particular importance related disciplines in penal law and order and public security, and maintains relationships about security matters.
The Office is the body responsible for the development policies of the conditions of legality and security in the provinces and the local police. It also cures the problems of the legal relief is not in order and public safety.
Finally, the Office provides advice in the areas of police and security subsidiary administrative matters and special legislation for public safety, law mafia, drugs and money laundering.
The office strictly requires for membership the enrollement in the Fascist Party.

Office III - Public Aid and Civil Defence

The Office conducts affairs relating to civil protection, the urgent technical assistance, fire prevention and industrial risk. To fulfill its tasks, the Office assists the Minister about the management of civil protection in the territory and between institutions, on relationships about civil defence with the Prefectures, on ecological and environmental issues and on the National Firemen Corps.

Office IV - Internal Affairs

The Office is the body responsible for matters relating to the general representation and the government and handles matters relating to general programming politico-administrative and financial activities of the Ministry and the related verification. It is also the organ of reference for the legislation about trade union rights in essential public services, for relationships with the Catholic Church (about matters which regard the Ministry of Interior) and the other allowed religions and for issues of the national economic, social and labour order.
Office IV - Internal Affairs supports the Minister for union and organizational issues and, as well as the internal controls of any kind. In addition, the Office receives applications and proposals for rewards merit and social value.

Office V - Territorial Affairs

The Office performs the inherent control over the organs of local authorities, maintains relationships with the corresponding Directorate-General and with Prefectures. It is the office that deals with municipal and provincial affairs, for authorized casinos for the civil state and the registry services.

Office VI - Demography and protection of the race

The Office deals with the support to demographic services and with the enforcement of the racial segregation (in both metropolitan and Italian Empire territories); in order to achieve this result, the Office maintains relationships with all Directorates General which are involved. Office VI, furthermore, deals with the National Fascist Party in order to monitor and handle racist, nationalist and xenophobic feelings and tendencies, if related to the preservation of racial differences.

Office VII - Immigration

The Office VII is the terminal for business relating to immigration and immigration contrast, also maintaining relationships with central offices and prefectures. It also manages the affairs relating to political asylum.

Legislative Affairs Office

The Legislative Affairs Office assures the Minister's support in the legislative activity and in the drafting of the normative texts, carrying out research and study activities. The Office usually examines the measures submitted to the Council of Ministers and those of parliamentary initiative, providing legal advice to the Minister, as well as to the Directorates General. To this end, the Office may avail itself of the collaboration of the research offices established within the Directorates General of the Ministry. The Office consists of up to 85 employées.

Secretary General

The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Interior is the senior official, reporting directly to the Minister, which ensures the coordination of administrative action. The Secretary-General assists the Minister of the Interior for the administration of the Ministry.
The Secretary-General ensures the development of guidelines and programs of the responsible Minister, coordinates the offices and activities of the Ministry, monitors their performance and efficiency, and reports periodically to the Minister. He also ensures the carrying out investigation procedure for acts pertaining to the Minister. The Secretary-General proposes to the minister the strategic orientations of the ministry, develops its capacity for anticipation and proposes its evolutions. To this end, the Secretary-General coordinates the action and evaluation of all services and proposes to the Minister the division of resources between them.
The Secretary-General also proposes and develops the general principles of human resources management and is in charge of political affairs.
The Secretary-General also carries out the coordination of the activities of the directorates-general, the resolution of conflicts of competence, coordination with the Directorates General of the training of personnel, the formulation, after having consulted the Directors General, of proposals to the Minister. He is in charge of coordinating the policy of the Ministry of the Interior and animating the territorial action of the Ministry, with the exception of the Directorate General of Public Security.
The Secretary-General presides, when there is not the Minister, the Standing Conference of the Directors General of the Ministry. The Secretary General makes use of a Secretariat.
The office of Secretary-General is conferred by decree of the Duce of Italy, upon the proposal of the competent Minister. The incumbent Secretary-General of the Ministry of Interior is Prefect, 1st Class Benito Landolfini.

Director General and Directorates-General

The Director General is the official responsible for a Directorate-General. The Directorates-General, which are functional groupings, are in turn subdivided into Divisions; both Directorates-General and Divisions are established or disestablished (along with their own functions and responsibilities) by the Minister of Interior, through his own decrees, within the functions which are assigned by the law to the Ministry. The positions of Director General are conferred by the Chief of Government, on the proposal of the Minister of Interior.
The Directorates-General may issue administrative acts with external effects both based on their own functions and responsibilities, assigned by the legislation, and based on functions and responsibilities delegated by the Minister; the latter ones are the most numerous.

Directorate General for the Civil Administration of the Interior

The Directorate General for the Civil Administration of the Interior (Direzione Generale per l'Amministrazione Civile dell'Interno) is the Ministry subdivision responsible for main and foremost tool for the territorial political control and for immigration management, since it provides both general and technical assistance to the local authorities; while major cities may organize their own specialized services, smaller centres must rely on the central Ministry for advanced services being carried out. The Director General is authorized to exercise the functions of the Minister in relation to local affairs, coordination, guidance and promotion of administrative initiatives. He is responsible for the coordinated exercise of powers. The Directorate is subdivided into eleven Divisions:

  • Division I - General Affairs.
  • Division II - Confidential affairs and coordination.
  • Division III - Regional, Provincial and Municipal government: control and assessment of the behaviour of local authorities;
  • Division IV - Studies and research;
    • Territorial marginality Office: the Office takes care of the development and implementation of strategies and programs to ensure the effectiveness of policies aimed to support territorial marginality, with special regard to depressed mountainous areas and small islands, and ensures the management and monitoring of local development programs.
    • Urban Office: the Office takes care of the development and implementation of strategies and programs to ensure the effectiveness of urban policy, and ensures the management and monitoring of local development programs.
  • Division V - Fascist electoral services.
  • Division VI - Local Finance: purely economic and financial tasks, inspection duties;
    • Central Office for the studies on economic and financial issues related to services of local authorities;
    • Central Commission for the municipal and provincial credit;
    • Office of credit and provincial and municipal public services.
  • Division VII - Accounting Services.
  • Division VIII - Economic activity in the provinces and municipalities.
  • Division IX - Municipal and provincial secretaries and personnel of local authorities;
    • Section IX A - Municipal and Provincial Secretaries: deals with management and assignment of these officials. It is further subdivided into three offices: Personnel files archive, three Secretaries Offices (in charge for assignments, each rank has its own office) and Serial Office;
    • Section IX B - Employees of auxiliary authorities: it is in charge for personnel matters related to other peripheral authorities and bodies. It is further subdivided into three offices: Regulations and personnel dotations Office, Complaints Office and Pensions Office.
  • Division X - Immigration;
  • Division XI - Management of Foreigners and Asylum.

Division X - Immigration

Division X - Immigration is a Division whose task and area of interest, the management of the foreigners' entry in Italy, is quite different from the rest of the Directorate-General, and several proposals have been made to establish a new Directorate-General by splitting Division X and Division XI from the other nine Divisions.
The Immigration Division contributes the migration policies of the Government with proposals, studies and administrative handling. The Division carries out analysis and planning of migration policies and the monitoring of foreigners (especially through the peripheral organs of the Administration of Public Security) and provides analysis of the phenomenon - in collaboration with the competent bodies of the Ministry of Imperial Affairs, of the realms of the Italian Empire and of foreign States - and participates in the coordination of activities carried out in implementation of the legislation on immigration and asylum. The Division is subdivided into four Sections:

  • Section I - Litigation: handles disputes regarding foreign entry procedures in the Italian territory;
  • Section II - Planning and general representation: handles the short and medium term plans and keeps contacts with both domestic and foreign bodies;
  • Section III - Immigration and asylum territorial policies;
  • Section IV - Documentation, communication and statistics.

Division XI - Management of Foreigners and Asylum

Division XI - Management of Foreigners and Asylum is in charge of the reception/repatration system in all its facets, of examining applications for asylum and the refusal or granting asylum or other forms of international protection. Divisional tasks are quite different from the rest of the Directorate-General, and several proposals have been made to establish a new Directorate-General by splitting Division X and Division XI from the other nine Divisions. The Division is subdivided into four Sections:

  • Section I - Refugee settlements;
  • Section II - Deportation system;
  • Section III - Applications of asylum and Provincial Commissions of Asylum;
  • Section IV - Centres for Identification and Expulsion.

Directorate General for the Demography and Race

The Directorate General for Demography and Race (Direzione Generale per la Demografia e la Razza, often shortened in Demorazza) is the body within the Ministry of Interior which is responsible for the study and implementation of the measures regarding demographic and racial matters. It consists of four Divisions and of some auxiliary bodies:

  • Division I - General Affairs;
  • Division II - Citizenship;
  • Division III - Race;
  • Division IV - Demography;
  • Higher Council for Demography and Race: the Council is a collegiate body tasked to give opinions on general questions interesting demographics and race. The Council includes a vice president and other 14 members from among the people particularly well versed in the problems of demography and race. They are appointed by Decree of the Duce, hold office for three years and can be confirmed. The functions of the Secretary of the Council are exercised by the Director General for Demography and Race.

See also

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