Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures

"You goes racketing around like this, Dobby, I says, and next thing I hear you's up in front of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, like some common goblin."
     -- Winky (GF8)

On Level four of the Ministry of Magic lies the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures (OP7). The Department consists of three divisions: the Beast Division, the Being Division, and the Spirit Division (FB). They handle complaints about magical creatures, including goblins and ghosts, they regulate and monitor breeding of new magical creatures (GF24).

Beast Division

Newt Scamander, after 1917 (FB)

Centaur Liaison Office

No centaur has ever actually used this service. In Ministry jargon, saying that an employee has been "sent to the Centaur Office" means that person is about to be sacked (FB).

Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures

• ordered Buckbeak destroyed after he injured Draco Malfoy

• office is in London

Dragon Research and Restraint Bureau
Newt Scamander (FB)

Pest Advisory Board (OP7)

Werewolf Capture Unit (FB)

Werewolf Registry (FB)

Being Division

Goblin Liason Office (GF7, HBP4)
Head: Dirk Cresswell (HBP4)
Cuthbert Mockridge (GF7)

Office of House-Elf Relocation
Newt Scamander, c. 1915 - 1917) (FB)

Werewolf Support Services (FB)

Spirit Division

Formed when ghosts argued that they weren't Beings, they were clearly "Has-Beens" and deserved special treatment (FB).

Handled Olive Hornby's complaint about Myrtle haunting her; Myrtle was forced to return to Hogwarts and haunt the place of her death: a bathroom (GF25)