National Public Safety Commission

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Central government building No. 2 in the u. a. the commission also has its seat

The National Public Security Commission ( Japanese 国家 公安 委員会 , kokka kōan iinkai ) is an organ of the Japanese government for the central monitoring of the police .

It was created in today's form according to the police law of 1954 together with the police authority ( 警察 庁 , keisatsu-chō ). A forerunner of the same name already existed under the Police Act of 1948 to ensure civil control over the police and to limit the power of the former Interior Ministry ( 内務 省 , naimu-shō ). The commission consists of a chairman, who is part of the cabinet as minister of state , and five other members who are appointed by the prime minister with the consent of both Houses of Kokkai for five years. It deals in general with security issues that are the responsibility of the state and in particular with the monitoring of the police authority as a whole: it sets guidelines and appoints the head of the authority, but it has no direct influence on local departments or individual prefecture police forces. Even though she is appointed by the Prime Minister and formally assigned to the cabinet office, she works independently of instructions from the cabinet. The commission is to ensure that the police and their training work in a uniform, efficient and free from political interference.

Commissioners

The current members of the commission are (as of December 2017):

  • Hachirō Okonogi , Chairman (Minister and MP in the Shūgiin ), since August 3, 2017
  • Tomohide Okuno (former CEO of KK Kyōdō Tsūshin Digital), term of office: March 5, 2013 - March 4, 2018
  • Yūko Kawamoto ( Waseda University ), term of office: December 7, 2014 - December 6, 2019
  • Shin'ichi Kitajima (formerly Foreign Service ), term of office: May 27, 2015 - May 26, 2020
  • Keiji Kimura (Advisor to Mitsubishi Jisho , former Vice President of the Keizai Dōyūkai Business Association ), term of office: February 22, 2016 - February 21, 2021
  • Hiroko Andō (former chairwoman of the Takamatsu Higher Court ), term of office: March 13, 2017 - March 12, 2022

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 国家 公安 委員会 委員長 ・ 委員 の プ ロ フ ィ ー ル . National Public Safety Commission, 2017, accessed December 12, 2017 (Japanese).

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