Department of Internal Affairs

The Department of Internal Affairs (Dutch: Departement van Binnenlandse Zaken), prior to 1966 the Department of Internal Affairs and Overseas was a government department in charge of overseeing internal security and overseas affairs.

The Department was founded in 1910 and was initially tasked with overseeing areas not expressly under other departments and overseeing the affairs of Berrio when it was declared an overseas territory in 1920.

In 1965 the department was tasked with managing the Starting in the late 1960s, the department became tasked with overseeing the National Police and ramped up its activities against Barzona Libre, which led BL to focus its operations against it. Eventually this came to a head in July 1973, when Minister Wouter Ritter was assassinated by BL.

Responsibilities

 * The National Police's running from 1965
 * Managing Brunants Post
 * Overseeing Berrio's affairs

Minsiters

 * Wouter Ritter (1973)