Minister of the Interior (France)

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• 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
  French National Police
  
  The National Police , formerly the S?ret?, is one of two national police forces and the main civil law enforcement agency of France, with primary jurisdiction in cities and large towns....
  
• the French Gendarmerie for most operational purposes
• Civil defence and Security Directorate - Securite Civile
  Sécurité Civile
  
  Operating for the French Minister of the Interior , the Direction de la Defense de la S?curit? Civiles is a French Government civil defence agency, employing some 2,500 civilian and military personnel over 60 sites....
  
• the sub-directorate of Sapeurs-Pompiers or Firefighter
  Firefighter
  
  Firefighters are rescuers extensively trained primarily to put out hazardous fires that threaten civilian populations and property, to rescue people from car accidents, collapsed and burning buildings and other such situations....
  s
• the granting of identity documents (passport
  Passport
  
  A passport is a document, issued by a national government, which certifies, for the purpose of international travel, the identity and nationality of its holder....
  s, identity cards) and driving licenses through the network of préfecture
  Prefecture
  
  Prefecture indicates the office, seat, territorial circumscription of a Prefect. The term prefecture is also used to refer to offices analogous to prefectures....
  s;
• relations between the central government and local governments;
• logistics
  Logistics
  
  Logistics is the management of the flow of goods, information and other resources, including energy and people, between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet the requirements of consumers ....
   and organization of political election
  Election
  
  An election is a decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold formal office. This is the usual mechanism by which modern Representative democracy fills offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional government and local government....
  s, at the national and prefectoral levels (but the results of the elections are overseen by the Constitutional Council
  Constitutional Council of France
  
  The Constitutional Council was established by the Constitution of France on 4 October 1958. It is the highest constitutional authority in France....
   or the administrative courts);
• all départemental préfet
  Préfet
  
  A prefect in France is the State's representative in a departments of France or regions of France. Sub-prefects are responsible for the subdivisions of departments, arrondissements of France....
  s and sub-prefects are subordinate to the Minister of the Interior.
• The Minister of Interior is also Ministre des cultes and is formally consulted in the process of appointment of Catholic diocesan bishops (Briand-Ceretti Agreement
  Briand-Ceretti Agreement
  
  The Briand-Ceretti Agreement is an agreement whereby France diocesan bishops are nominated by the Holy See after a process involving the Minister of the Interior and of Ministry of Foreign Affairs ....
  ).

See also

• List of Interior Ministers of France
  List of Interior Ministers of France
  
  This page is a list of Minister of the Interior ....
  

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