Its main tasks included fighting counter-revolutionary rallies and Bolshevik propaganda, combating embezzlement of public funds, etc.

On April 15, 1953, the Supreme Council of Georgian SSR adopted a law on Transformation of state ministries of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia.

The main functions of the department is the protection of public state and order as well as responding the violations and any other possible threat, their avoidance and prevention, protection of physical persons and legal entities from any illegal action, protection of the safety for the road traffic participants, supervision on observation the road traffic rules, carrying out the relevant measures for prevention of road accident; its functions also include the combat illegal migration, its prevention, detection and elimination within the scopes of its competence.

[3] The Human Rights Protection Department was created in January, 2018, a month after the appointment of Giorgi Gakharia to the position of the Minister of Internal Affairs.

[2] Those include special measures and rapid deployment capabilities for particular events such as unrests or biological and chemical warfare utilized against the civilian population by hostile entities.

[4] The Special Tasks Department was established for rapid response to maintain public order and security as a supportive operational force to all other divisions.

[5][failed verification] The STD is also capable of performing combat operations in a supportive role for the armed forces of Georgia and did so during the 2008 war.

Georgia's most praised and recognized unit however, the Counterterrorism Center is no longer part of the MIA but was transferred to the State Security Service[7] and has been frequently involved in international missions and maneuvers such as the most recent Jackal Stone 2016,[8] as active part of global counter-terrorism efforts since the beginning of the War on Terror.