Ministry of Citizen Protection (Greece)
The Ministry of Citizen Protection is the government department responsible for Greece's public security services.
The ministry existed until 2007 as the Ministry of Public Order. On 19 September 2007, it was merged with the Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization and reduced to a General Secretariat within the Ministry of the Interior. On 7 October 2009, it was revived as the Ministry of Citizen Protection and was eventually renamed as the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection on 21 June 2012. Following the electoral victory of Syriza in January 2015, it was subordinated to the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction and was headed by an Alternate Minister. In August 2018, it was reorganized as an independent ministry and was revived as the Ministry of Citizen Protection. The incumbent minister in the Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis is Michalis Chrisochoidis, a list of members of the [Hellenic Parliament, June 2023|member] of the Hellenic Parliament for the Athens B2 constituency with New Democracy. Chrisochoidis has served in the role four times previously, as a member of PASOK and an independent politician.