National Police Agency (Japan)
The Keisatsu -chō (Japanese警察 庁, " police authority ."; Engl National Police Agency, "national police authority ," NPA) is an agency of the Japanese central government for the coordination and organization of the 47 prefectural police forces.
It is subordinate to the National Public Safety Commission and thus is directly under the jurisdiction of the Prime Minister, not a ministry, but also evades the direct access. The Authority is responsible for the overall coordination and organization of the Japanese police system, including for equipment, training and crime statistics. It also takes into disaster command of prefectural police forces and coordinates prefecture -wide or international operations eg against organized crime, but in the normal case but has no operational responsibilities. It was created in 1954 based on the new police law, which in the occupation previously highly decentralized, multi-unit, some municipal police organization again more centralized and bundled into police prefecture.
The head of agency ( Chokan, engl. " Commissioner General " ) is appointed by the Public Safety Commission with the approval of the Prime Minister. Under him are a Substitute ( jichō ), the Secretariat ( Kambo ), the five non-fiction departments of the Authority and the seven regional offices, each coordinate multiple prefecture police and eg each have a regional police academy. The police prefecture of Hokkaido and Tokyo are not associated with a regional office, this maintains the National Police Board Liaison Offices ( Tsushin - bu). In addition, the police department, the police high school ( keisatsu daigakkō engl. National Police Academy ) in Fuchū, the headquarters of the palace police ( Kogu keisatsu hombu, Eng. Imperial Guard Headquarters), Chiyoda and the scientific police research institute ( kagaku keisatsu Kenkyujo, Eng. National Research Institute of Police Science) assigned in Kashiwa.
In April 2012, the Authority had 7,736 employees, including 892 in the police of the Imperial Palace, and 2,070 police officers, and ordered in fiscal year 2011 on a budget of about 312 billion yen ( 3 billion euros ), of which around a quarter of direct payments was forwarded to the police prefecture and used another quarter for equipment, communication systems and, in some cases also for the prefectural police. By comparison, the 47 prefectural police forces had a total of 285 723 people, of which around 90 % police, and budgets together of 2.68 trillion yen ( 26 billion euros ), over 80% of human resources.
The 23 head of agency since 2011 Yutaka Katagiri.