Subordinate Bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

▫️ Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

Within the scope of its powers, the Police develops and implements the policy of the Government of the Republic of Armenia in the areas of combating crime and other unlawful acts, as well as ensuring public order and security.

Chief of Police: Kamo Tsutsulyan

Official Website: police.mia.gov.am

▫️ Rescue Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

The Rescue Service develops programmes for preventing emergencies, mitigating their potential consequences and eliminating them, protecting the population in emergency situations, and implementing civil protection measures. It also participates in the creation and targeted use of civil protection reserves, provides fire protection and firefighter-rescue services, and performs other functions.

Director of the Rescue Service: Aram Ghazaryan

Official Website: rescue.mia.gov.am

▫️ Migration and Citizenship Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs

The Migration and Citizenship Service is a state body operating within the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia. It develops and implements the policy of the Government of the Republic of Armenia in the fields of migration and citizenship.

Head of the Migration and Citizenship Service: Nelly Davtyan

Official Website: migration.mia.gov.am

▫️The structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ensures effective and coordinated management.
▫️The Ministry's staff consists of highly qualified professionals who exercise the powers vested in them by law, guided by the principles of legality, transparency and high standards of service.

▫️ The main and supporting professional structural units ensure the full implementation of the Ministry's functions in accordance with their respective mandates and areas of responsibility.

🏛️ Structure and Staff

• Developing and implementing policy in the areas falling within the Ministry's remit;
• Ensuring the effective operation of systems for maintaining public order, ensuring public security, including road traffic safety, and human security, as well as preventing, detecting, suppressing and solving crimes and administrative offences;
• Ensuring the effective operation of the civil protection system, the system for protecting the population in emergency situations, and the unified state system of material reserves;
• Building and strengthening a disaster-resilient state, continuously reducing disaster risks, ensuring a rapid and targeted response to emergencies, and effective post-disaster recovery;
•  Ensuring the effective operation of systems for managing migration processes; safeguarding the exercise of the rights of foreign citizens, refugees and stateless persons in the Republic of Armenia; acquisition and termination of citizenship; documentation and identification of persons; and the state population register and voter register.

• Ensuring the maintenance of public order and public security, human security, the detection of wanted persons and vehicles, road traffic safety and compliance with vehicle operating rules, equal protection of all forms of property, as well as the prevention, detection, suppression and investigation of crimes and administrative offences;
• Ensuring the management of migration processes; the right of foreign nationals, refugees and stateless persons to reside (stay) legally in the Republic of Armenia; the voluntary return and deportation of foreign nationals; the determination of stateless person status; the recognition of refugee status and the granting of asylum;
• Ensuring the acquisition and termination of citizenship, the operation of the unified passport system, the documentation and identification of persons, the assignment of public service numbers, the maintenance of the State Population Register and voter registers, and the preparation of voter lists;
•  Ensuring the state registration and recording of vehicles, and the issuance of registration plates and driving licences;
• Ensuring the licensing process in areas falling within the Ministry's remit;
•  Ensuring civil protection and the protection of the population in emergency situations; the implementation of measures aimed at reducing seismic risk; the reduction and elimination of the risks and consequences of natural and man-made disasters; and the carrying out of rescue, emergency rescue and firefighting operations;
• Ensuring the training of citizens in the fields of civil protection and the protection of the population in emergency situations, as well as raising public and organisational awareness of issues relating to the protection of the population in emergency situations and civil protection.

🌐 mia.gov.am is the official website address of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Armenia.

Explanation of the domain name

▫️ mia
Ministry of Internal Affairs 
stands for the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

▫️ gov  
government 
indicates that the website belongs to a government entity.

▫️ am
Armenia 
is Armenia's country-code domain.

🗂️ What You Can Find on the Website

▫️ MIA news and official announcements;
▫️ public notices and information updates;
▫️ information on the activities of the bodies subordinate to the Ministry of Internal Affairs;
▫️ contact details and information on submitting applications and complaints.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is a modern, effective and accountable public administration body whose activities are aimed at ensuring public security, upholding the rule of law, and protecting human rights and freedoms.
The Ministry is developing and strengthening an institutional structure that enjoys a high level of public trust by introducing innovative solutions and modern management practices.
Our priority is to promote the continued development of a safe, stable and law-abiding society for the benefit of every citizen of the Republic of Armenia.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is guided by the principles of legality, integrity, transparency and accountability, serving the public and protecting human rights and fundamental freedoms.

▫️ Our Mission

Our mission is to ensure public security and prevent and detect crimes in cooperation with citizens, public authorities and civil society organisations, thereby laying the foundations for trust, stability and the strengthening of the rule of law.

▫️ Purpose-Driven Commitment

Our consistent, responsible and dedicated work continuously strengthens public trust in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This trust serves as a solid foundation for deepening cooperation between the Ministry and society, for the sake of a safe, stable and dignified life for every citizen.

▫️Integrity

As an institution at the forefront of direct interaction with the public, the Ministry of Internal Affairs places particular importance on maintaining high professional and ethical standards among its personnel. The conduct, words and actions of every member of staff directly shape public trust in the state system.

The professionalism, integrity and sense of responsibility of the Ministry's personnel ensure its effective operation and contribute to the dignified and trustworthy representation of public service.

▫️Strategy

The comprehensive reforms being implemented within the Ministry of Internal Affairs are aimed at building a modern, effective and public-oriented institution that serves as a stable and reliable system for ensuring public security.

This strategy seeks to continuously improve the quality of services and modernise public administration by strengthening cooperation between the state, public servants and society.