Ministry of Justice and Security

The Ministry of Justice and Security (; JenV) is the Dutch ministry responsible for justice, imprisonment and public security. The ministry was created in 1798 as the Department of Justice, before it became in 1876 the Ministry of Justice. In 2010, it took over the public safety duties from the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations and became Ministry of Security and Justice. In 2017 the ministry was renamed to Ministry of Justice and Security. The ministry is headed by the Minister of Justice and Security, Dilan Yeṣilgöz-Zegerius (VVD) since 10 January 2022. Responsibilities The ministry has the legal tasks of: providing workable legislation for the public, the government and the courts; preventing crime, in order to build a safer society; protecting youth and children; enforcing the law, in order to build a safer society; providing independent, accessible and effective administration of justice and legal aid; providing support to the victims of crime; providing fair, consistent and effective enforcement of punishment and other sanctions; regulating immigration into the Netherlands. It is also responsible for the coordination of counter-terrorism policy. Because it shares so many responsibilities, and has twin buildings (both old and new) with the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, they are sometimes called the twin ministries.