The Ministry of Homeland Security & Technology, formerly known as the Ministry of Home Affairs is part of the Maldivian Executive branch responsible for maintaining law and order in the Maldives at the national level.

Ever since the first constitution came into effect, a Ministry of Home Affairs was instituted on 22 December 1932 under the name of "Al Wuzara Al’Dhaakhiliyya" which was mandated to oversee and execute the internal affairs of the country.

Maldives Correctional Service was founded on 31 December 2013 signed into law by president Abdulla Yameen.

It is supposed to maintain the jail facilities and make the prisons a safer place for all inmates.

[6] It has been part of controversies that they don't give equal treatment for all inmates, though they have denied these claims.