Police Organization

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Japan's national police organization is made up of the National Public Safety Commission (NPSC) and the National Police Agency (NPA). The NPSC holds administrative supervision over the NPA and appoints the Commissioner General. As head of the NPA, the Commissioner General 警察庁長官 (Keisatsu-chō Chōkan) holds the highest position in the Japanese police, but his title is not a police rank.

The NPA oversees the seven Regional Police Bureaus (RPB) and the prefectural police organizations. Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (警視庁 Keishichō) and Hokkaido Prefectural Police Headquarters are excluded from the jurisdiction of RPBs. Police stations in a prefecture are under the command of the prefecture headquarters. Tokyo MPD headquarters are located in the government buildings area beside the Imperial Palace in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo[1].

Police Department Sections

Police Station personnel are divided into seven divisions[2]:

  • Administration Section
  • Traffic Section
  • Security Section (Security for domestic and foreign dignitaries; also subversive activities and counterintelligence[3])
  • Community Police Affairs Section
    • Police Boxes (Koban)
    • Residential Police Boxes (Chuzaisho)
    • Patrol cars
  • Criminal Investigation Section
  • Community Safety Section
  • Organized Crime Control Section

Within sections, there may be specialized divisions, such as the Identification Division that collects crime scene evidence. [4]

Police Ranks

There are nine legal police ranks and one honorary rank for all positions within the police force. [5]

Superintendent General (Rank 1)

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警視総監 (Keishi-sōkan) is the highest police rank and the head of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the largest prefectural-level jurisdiction in Japan. This position is currently held by Saguru Hakuba's father[6].

Superintendent Supervisor (Rank 2)

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警視監 (Keishi-kan) is equivalent to:

  • Deputy Superintendent General
  • Director General of a Regional Police Bureau or an NPA Training Department Bureau
  • Chief of a (large) Prefectural Police Force
    • Heizo Hattori, Director General of the Osaka Prefectural Police (大阪 府警 本部長 Ōsaka fukei honbuchō)[7]

Chief Superintendent (Rank 3)

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警視長 (Keishi-chō) is equivalent to:

  • Chief of a (smaller) Prefectural Police Force
  • Director in the NPA

Senior Superintendent (Rank 4)

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警視正 (Keishi-sei) is equivalent to:

  • Director of a department in a prefecture police headquarters
  • Chief of a larger police station

Masayoshi Sato held this rank before he passed away.[8]

Superintendent (Rank 5)

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警視 (Keishi) is equivalent to:

  • Director of a division in a prefectural police headquarters
    • Kiyonaga Matsumoto, MPD Superintendent (警視庁 警視 Keishichō keishi)[9]. Presumably, director of Criminal Investigations (捜査 一課 Sousa hitoka) 1st division, as he is Inspector Megure's superior.
    • Shintaro Chaki, MPD Criminal Investigation Section 2nd Division Superintendent (警視庁 捜査 二課 警視 Keishichō sōsa nika keishi) [10]
  • Chief of a police station

Police Inspector (Rank 6)

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警部 (Keibu) is attainable in the early 30s via successive promotion tests and is equivalent to:

  • Chief of a section in a police station (i.e., homicide) or other field supervisors

Assistant Police Inspector (Rank 7)

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警部補 (Keibu-ho) is attainable via promotion tests.

Police Sergeant (Rank 8)

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巡査部長 (Junsa-buchō) is attainable via promotion tests.

Senior Police Officer (Honorary)

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巡査長 (Junsa-chō) is not a legal rank, but is bestowed on officers with years of experience and excellent work. These officers are often responsible for training junior officers.

Police officer (Rank 9)

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巡査 (Junsa) is the most junior rank.

See also

External Links

References

  1. ^ http://wikimapia.org/10641193/Tokyo-Metropolitan-Police-Department-The-main-building
  2. ^ http://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.jp/foreign/gaiyo2/sosikizu/sosikizu2.htm
  3. ^ Bayley, David H. Forces of order: policing modern Japan
  4. ^ http://www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.jp/foreign/gaiyo2/keiji1.htm#investigative
  5. ^ Das, Dilip K. & Palmiotto, Michael. World Police Encyclopedia: A-K, index
  6. ^ Magic Kaito Volume 3, Chapter 2, Page 10
  7. ^ Volume 32, Chapter 3, Page 2
  8. ^ Volume 27, Chapter 4, Page 7.
  9. ^ Volume 8, File 8, Page 9
  10. ^ Volume 16, File 6, Page 15
  11. ^ Volume 1, Chapter 1, Page 19
  12. ^ Volume 21, File 8, Page 3
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Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Juzo Megure • Wataru Takagi • Miwako Sato • Ninzaburo Shiratori • Yumi Miyamoto • Kazunobu Chiba • Naeko Miike • Ginzo Nakamori • Shintaro Chaki • Inspector Yuminaga • Kiyonaga Matsumoto • Hyoue Kuroda • Inspector Momose • Chosuke Takagi (Tottori) • Jinpei Matsuda (deceased) • Kenji Hagiwara (deceased) • Wataru Date (deceased) • Masayoshi Sato (deceased) • Officer Tome (ao) • Toshiro Odagiri (ao) • Detective Kobayashi (ao) • Detective Yokoyama (ao) • Detective Kojima (ao) • Superintendent General Hakuba • Manabu Fujimaki • Detective Takikawa • Detective Nakamura • Detective Fukui • Detective Kawanaka • Detective Saitoh • Detective Horita • Detective Takano • Detective Sogawa • Detective Okumura • Detective Sugita • Detective Hirota (ao) • Officer Numata • Detective Terashima (ao) • Toshio Moroboshi (ao) • Female forensics member (ao) • Detective Miyazaki • Detective Tomokawa • Tadayoshi Uno (ao) • Detective Yama (ao) • Inspector Yuminaga's assistant
Osaka Prefectural Police Heizo Hattori • Ginshiro Toyama • Goro Otaki
Nagano Prefectural Police Kansuke Yamato • Yui Uehara • Taka'aki Morofushi (Komei)
Kanagawa Prefectural Police Jugo Yokomizo • Chihaya Hagiwara
Hokkaido Prefectural Police Kyohei Nishimura • Detective Tamura
Kyoto Prefectural Police Fumimaro Ayanokoji • Detective Kurumazaki (ao)
Shizuoka Prefectural Police Sango Yokomizo • Tomonori Ogawara (ao) • Detective Tsukumo
Other Prefectures Misao Yamamura (Gunma) • Tsuyoshi Shikatsuno (ao, Nara) • Tamekichi Matsushiro (ao, Gifu) • Shoji Terabayashi (Chiba)
Japanese Intelligence Agencies Rei Furuya • Yuya Kazami • Hiromitsu Morofushi (deceased)
Primary Tokyo MPD Cases Metropolitan Police Detective Love Story One • MPD Two • MPD Three • Megure's Sealed Secret • Shinkansen Transport Case • MPD Four • Serial Bomber • MPD Five • MPD Six • Jewelry Robbery • MPD Seven • Fake Wedding • MPD Eight • Hammer Man • The Scar that Evokes the Past • Inspector Shiratori, Memories of the Cherry Blossom • Kobayashi-sensei's Love • A Video Letter of First Love • Co-Investigating with a First Love • The Life-Threatening Broadcast of Love • The Ex-Boyfriend Living Next to a Crime Scene • MDP Nine • Taiko Meijin's Match of Love • Chiba's Difficult UFO Case • The Marriage Registration's Password • The Target is the Metropolitan Police Traffic Department
Other Significant Police Cases The Osaka Double Mystery (Osaka) • Festival Dolls Dyed in the Setting Sun (Tokyo-Theft) • The Red Horse within the Flames (Tokyo Arson) • Furinkazan (Nagano) • A Dangerous Party of Two & The Mansion of Death and the Red Wall (Nagano) • Heiji Hattori and the Vampire Mansion (Osaka) • The Scarlet Return (NPA) • The Darkness of the Prefectural Police (Nagano NPA) • A song named ASACA (PSB NPA) • Captured in Her Eyes (Tokyo) • Crossroad in the Ancient Capital (Kyoto) • The Raven Chaser (Tokyo, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Nagano, Kyoto, and Chiba)
Related Pages Police Organization • Law Enforcement • Minor law enforcement • Unnamed law enforcers • Tokyo Metropolitan Police • PSB • FBI • CIA • MI6
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