Keisatsu-cho

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Headquarters at Chūō Gōdō Chōsha No. 2 in Tokyo's Kasumigaseki Ministry District .

The Keisatsu-chō ( Japanese 警察 庁 , "police authority"; English National Police Agency , "national police authority", NPA ) is an authority of the Japanese central government for the coordination and organization of the 47 prefecture police .

It is subordinate to the National Commission for Public Security and is therefore directly in the area of ​​responsibility of the Prime Minister , not a ministry, but also eludes its direct access. The agency is responsible for the overall coordination and organization of the Japanese police force , including equipment, training and crime statistics. In addition, in the event of a disaster, it takes command of the prefectural police and coordinates cross-prefectural or international operations, e.g. B. against organized crime, but normally has no operational tasks. It was created in 1954 on the basis of the new Police Act, which centralized the multi-tier, partially communal police organization , which had previously been strongly decentralized during the occupation , and bundled it into prefectural police forces .

The head of authority ( chōkan , English "Commissioner General" ) is appointed by the Commission for Public Security with the consent of the Prime Minister. Subordinate to him are a deputy ( jichō ), the secretariat ( kambō ), the five departments of the authority and the seven regional offices, each of which coordinates several prefecture police and z. B. each have a regional police school. The prefecture police of Hokkaidō and Tokyo are not assigned to a regional office, to these the national police authority maintains liaison offices ( tsūshin-bu ). In addition, the police authority is the police college ( keisatsu daigakkō English National Police Academy ) in Fuchū , the headquarters of the palace police ( kōgū keisatsu hombu , English Imperial Guard Headquarters ) in Chiyoda and the scientific police research institute ( kagaku keisatsu kenkyūjo , English National Research Institute of Police Science ) in Kashiwa .

In April 2012, the agency had 7,736 employees, including 892 in the Imperial Palace police force and 2,070 police officers, and had a budget of around 312 billion yen (about 3 billion euros) in fiscal 2011 , around a quarter of which was direct grants forwarded to the prefectural police and another quarter was used for equipment, communications and facilities, partly also for the prefectural police. For comparison: the 47 prefectural police forces had a total of 285,723 employees, around 90% of whom were police officers, and had budgets totaling 2.68 trillion yen (about 26 billion euros), with over 80% personnel expenses.

The 23rd head of the agency has been Yutaka Katagiri since 2011.

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Individual evidence

  1. 平 成 24 年 警察 白 書 要約 版 ( Heisei-24-nen keisatsu hakusho “White Book of the Police 2012”; PDF; 2.8 MB), p. 40