Ministry of Justice and Security

Ministry of Justice and Security
Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid
	; Current head office
Department overview
Formed	March 12, 1798
Jurisdiction	Kingdom of the Netherlands
Headquarters	Schedeldoekshaven 100, The Hague, Netherlands
Employees	30,000
Annual budget	€11,1 billion (2018)
Ministers responsible	Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius, Minister of Justice and Security; Franc Weerwind, Minister for Legal Protection;
Deputy Minister responsible	Eric van der Burg, State Secretary for Justice and Security;
Website	Ministry of Justice and Security

The Ministry of Justice and Security (Dutch: Ministerie van Justitie en Veiligheid; 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.

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