Keishi-cho
The Keishi-chō ( Japanese 警 視 庁 ; about "police authority", not with the usual word keisatsu for "police" ; English Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department ) is the police authority in the sense of a police headquarters of the Japanese prefecture Tokyo (English "Tokyo Metropolis "; not to be confused with the area of the former city of Tokyo , geographically and colloquially even after the Second World War, often understood as a city of Tokyo without the rest of Tokyo ). As a Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is called in Tokyo but both the police headquarters as the prefectural police as a whole - in contrast to the other 46 prefectures (-dō / fu / ken) , where the prefectural police (DO / FU / ken-keisatsu) is each run by a prefectural police headquarters (dō- / fu- / ken-keisatsu honbu) ; collectively, on the other hand, one calls the 47 police forces of the prefectures mostly prefecture police ( 都 道 府 県 警察 , todōfuken-keisatsu ). With over 40,000 police officers, Tokyo is the largest prefecture police force in the country .
history
An authority of the same name was founded on January 15, 1874 by the Ministry of the Interior based on the model of the Police Prefecture of Paris , based on proposals by Kawaji Toshiyoshi , who also became the first police chief of Tokyo.
During the US- led occupation , the Keishi-chō, reorganized in 1948, was only responsible as a municipal police for the [special] districts (the former city of Tokyo ) and was subordinate to the "Special District Commission for Public Safety" (tokubetsu-ku kōan iinkai) , but which was appointed by the prefectural parliament and governor, not by the special district administrations; in addition, there were independent community police (shi- / chō- / son-keisatsu) subordinate to the respective municipal security commissions in other larger communities in Tokyo; the Tokyo Headquarters of the Land Police ( 国家 eigene 警察 東京 都 本部 , kokka chihō keisatsu Tōkyō-to honbu ) was responsible for the prefecture as a whole (the communities without their own local police) and the police of the imperial palace . After the Police Act of 1954, which again partially centralized the highly decentralized organization and bundled in prefectural police, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the police throughout the Tokyo Metropolitan principle as in other prefectures under the supervision of the prefecture Public Safety Commission (to Kōan iinkai) , but because of the capital functions with direct intervention possibilities of the central government.
organization
Unlike the police forces of the 46 other prefectures , the Keishi-chō not only operates under the supervision of the prefectural Tokyo and the National Public Security Commission because of its responsibility for the capital ; the prime minister must also approve the appointment of the head of agency. In addition to the police of Hokkaidō , it is also the only one who is not assigned to one of the seven "regional police offices " ( kanku keisatsu-kyoku ).
At the head of the Keishi-chō is the Keishi- sōkan ( 警 視 総 監 , English Superintendent General ) as police chief , who is appointed by the National Public Security Commission with the consent of the Prime Minister and the Tokyo Public Security Commission. The authority is subordinate to nine departments and the Tokyo Police School , which has been based in the city of Fuchū since 2001 . The Police College ( Keisatsu Daigaku ) is also located there, but is subordinate to the National Police Department .
The prefecture is divided into ten police districts, to which around 100 police stations and over 800 kobans are assigned. The Police District 1, which is responsible for the inner districts of Chiyoda , Chūō , Minato and the Izu and Ogasawara Islands , also includes the Tōkyō-wangan-keisatsusho , the "police station for the coast of Tokyo Bay ", which is responsible for the the former Tokyo Harbor and Water Police ( suijō-keisatsusho ). Districts 2 through 7 and 10 share the rest of the former city of Tokyo. Districts 8 and 9 comprise the cities and towns in the west of the prefecture ( Tama area ).
The Tokyo police have more than 1,300 patrol cars, 900 motorcycles, 14 helicopters, 25 patrol boats and 15 horses.
Use hundred of the Tokyo police are the nine "mobile units" ( Kido-tai ), their precursors ( 特別警備隊 , tokubetsu keibi-tai ) dates back to 1933, and the "unit for special vehicles" ( 特科車両隊 , Tokka sharyō- tai ). In addition to the anti-firearms squads including the Emergency Response Team (ERT) deployed as part of the mobile units, the SAT units are also organized as the most accurate special forces .
Web links
- Tokyo Prefecture Public Safety Commission website (Japanese)
- Official Website (Japanese, parts in English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tokubetsu-ku kyōgikai ("joint conference of the special districts"; administrative cooperation and interest group of the 23 special districts): 旧 現 警察 法 組織 比較