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The functions of the Ministry were executed by a system of prefectures, based on the French model, with provincial seats whose authority derived from the central government. Along with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of the Interior was one of the two pillars on which Italian national unity was built. During the establishment of the unitary state, the Minister of the Interior represented a strongly centralised model of state, desired by the Piedmontese statesmen in order to strengthen the state which they saw as excessively diverse. As a result of the absence of any kind of Head of Government from the Albertine Statute, the Ministry of the Interior had priority over the Presidency of the Council from the beginning. It experienced a notable growth in responsibilities from 1861, as a result of the Unification of Italy. The Ministry of the Interior was among the oldest ministries of the Kingdom of Sardinia. Palazzo delle Segreterie, in Turin first seat of the Ministry of the Interior of the Italian State (until 1865) and now the headquarters of the Prefecture Coordinating Commission for Solidarity to Victims of Mafia Crimes ( Commissario per il coordinamento delle iniziative di solidarietà per le vittime dei reati di tipo mafioso).
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Special Commission for Missing Persons ( Commissario straordinario per le persone scomparse).Special Commission for Anti-Racketeering and Anti-Usury ( Commissario straordinario antiracket e antiusura).Officies of Ministry of Interior Undersecretaries ( Segreterie dei sottosegretari).Deputy Minister's Secretariat ( Segreteria del viceministro).
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