Hokkaidō Police
The police of Hokkaidō ( Japanese 北海道 警察 Hokkaidō keisatsu , short 道 警 dōkei , "prefecture police ") is the police of Hokkaidō , Japan's northernmost prefecture and the only -dō among the prefectures (otherwise -to / -fu / -ken ). As in all prefectures, it is subordinate to the Public Security Commission, which is appointed by the Governor with the consent of Parliament . In addition to the Keishi-chō , the prefecture police of Tokyo , the police of the Hokkaidō is the only one that is not assigned to a regional office of the national police authority ; instead it has its own liaison office with the national authority and Hokkaidō has its own police school. The police headquarters of Hokkaidō ( 北海道 警察 本部 Hokkaidō keisatsu honbu ) has its seat in the building complex of the administration of Hokkaidō in the capital Sapporo .
With over 10,000 police officers (posts for police officers in FY. 2018: 10,634), the Hokkaidō police force is slightly smaller than the largest police forces in the highly urbanized prefectures with the metropolitan areas, but is one of the ten largest in the country. The budget for the 2019 fiscal year is just under 133 billion yen (approx. 1.1 billion euros) of which over 100 billion yen is spent on personnel. There are 66 police stations across the prefecture, which are grouped into five larger police regions ( 方面 hōmen ). As of April 1, 2018, there were 312 urban and 409 rural police stations ( kōban and chūzaisho ). The equipment includes over 1,300 patrol cars as well as several boats and helicopters.
history
Indirect forerunners of the Hokkaidō police originated in the Kaitakushi , the prefectural administrations of Hakodate , Sapporo and Nemuro and from 1886 in the Hokkaidō authority of the Ministry of the Interior ( 北海道 庁 Hokkaidō-chō , of the same name, but not to be confused with today's prefectural authorities, dōchō , the Self-government), from 1907 as Hokkaidō-chō keisatsu-bu ( 北海道 庁 警察 部 ). It was not until 1946 that the Hokkaidō was included in the prefecture order and received with the Hokkaidō keisatsu-bu ( 北海道 警察 部 ) a prefectural police department, although until 1947 it was still nominally controlled by the Ministry of the Interior like all prefectural police (the destruction of which SCAP prepared from the beginning of the occupation ). Thereafter, the occupation reforms in the larger communities introduced independent local police and associated local public security commissions, and there was also the Hokkaidō headquarters of the national regional police ( 国家 地方 警察 北海道 本部 kokka chihō keisatsu Hokkaidō honbu ) throughout the prefecture . With the new police law of 1954, which partially centralized the police organization again as part of the "reverse course" (gyaku course) of the occupation policy, all these police forces were bundled in the police of Hokkaidō in their current form.
Web links
- Website (Japanese, information for foreigners also in English, Russian, Korean, Chinese )
- Public Security Commission Pages to the Prefectural Administration (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 北海道 警察 の 紹 介 ("Presentation of the Hokkaidō Police") , accessed on August 23, 2019.
- ↑ 令 和 元 年度 北海道 警察 予 算 の 概要 ("Budget overview police Hokkaidō Fj. 2019") , accessed on 23 August 2019.
- ↑ 警察 署 の 管轄 区域 (“ Areas of responsibility of the police stations”) (pdf), accessed on 23 August 2019.