The ministry's predecessor was the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Turkestan ASSR, which was founded on June 26, 1919, on a charter for criminal investigation which was adopted in 1948.

It evolved as the USSR and the region changed over time, eventually becoming a ministry which covered the citizens of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.

In the top of the dash, the words in the section indicate the divergence, and the inscriptions are separated by two eight-pointed stars representing determination, courage, and glory.

The Exemplary Band of the MVD was founded on 10 January 1993, under the direction of Colonel Grigor Terzyan, an ethnic Armenian from the now Turkish city of Erzurum.

[11] In 2018, the band under the leadership of Captain M. Makhmudov performed on its silver jubilee at the Palace of Culture of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

[12] In 2020, employees of the band, each being home in quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, presented a musical composition through the Zoom videoconferencing software program.

It primarily has the purpose of grooming and training cadets to become enlisted officers who are ready for service in the interior ministry, as well as other law enforcement bodies in the armed forces.

Students of the boarding school are provided with food, clothing, footwear and other necessary items in accordance with established standards.

[15] The post of Minister of Internal Affairs was created in September 1991 after the Soviet era ministry in the Uzbek SSR was dissolved.