Ministry of Internal Affairs

The Ministry of Internal Affairs, also called the Ministry of the Interior, was an office of the that oversaw the internal security and intelligence apparatus, including  and. While these departments were nominally under the control of the Interior Ministry, it was a well-known fact in the Imperial government that they functioned largely outside of the Ministry's oversight. believed that they were more effective without being meddled in by civilian bureaucrats and thus they were under the total control of their directors. Areas that the Interior Ministry did actually have authority over included space exploration, managing the and providing administrative officials for new colonies.

The Minister of Internal Affairs since 4 BBY until the was  Alarik Rastus.