A Smart and Value-Centred Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security

To promote internal peace and security for all

• Professionalism;
• Integrity;
• Accountability;
• Transparency;
• Confidentiality;
• Teamwork, and
• Patriotism;

• Improve internal security services;
• Improve the management of financial resources;
• Improve coordination, business processes and procedures;
• Enhance Legal and Policy Framework; and
• Improve Human Capital

• Provision and promotion of Internal Security;
• Operational Excellence; and
• Service Excellence;

• Safer, Secure and Peaceful Zambia;
• Effective and efficient service delivery;
• Improve cooperate image and satisfied clients.

According to the Gazette Notice No. 1123 of 2021, the Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security is responsible for the following portfolio functions:

• Anti-Human Trafficking
• Anti-Terrorism
• Arms and Ammunition
• Citizenship
• Correctional and Custodial Services
• Drug and Psychotropic Substances
• Forensic Services
• Home Affairs Policy
• Immigration And Migration Services
• Law and Order
• Money Laundering
• National Archives
• Passports and National Registration
• Protection of Places and Areas
• Police and Correctional Service Training
• Refugees
• Registration of Births and Deaths
• Registration of Societies

According to the Gazette Notice No. 1123 of 2021, the Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security is responsible for the following Statutory Bodies/Institutions:

• Citizenship Board
• Drug Enforcement Commission
• National Anti-Terrorism Centre
• National Forensic Authority
• National Parole Board
• Police Public Complaints Authority
• Zambia Correctional Service
• Zambia Police Service