INTERNATIONAL POLICE ORGANIZATION AND ASIA POLICE MODELS Flashcards
The mission of this is to guarantee the neutrality of the police by insulating the force from political pressure and to ensure the maintenance of democratic methods in police organizations. The commission’s primary function is to supervise the national police agency, and it has authority to appoint or dismiss senior police officers.
National Public Safety Commission
As the central coordinating body for the entire police system, the National police Agency determines general standards and policies; detailed direction of operations is left to the lower echelons. In a national emergency or large scale disaster, the agency is authorized to take command of prefectural police forces.
National Police Agency
Is concerned with police personnel, education, welfare, training, and unit inspections.
Police Administration Bureau
Is in charge of research statistics and the investigation of nationally important and international cases. In addition, the criminal Investigation Bureau surveys, formulates and recommends legislation on firearms, explosives, food, drugs, and narcotics.
Criminal Investigation Bureau
Supervises communication systems.
Communication Bureau
Licenses drivers, enforces traffic safety and driver education campaigns are run at both national and prefectural levels.
Traffic Bureau
Formulates and supervises the execution of security policies. It conducts research on equipment and tactics fro suppressing riots and oversaw and coordinates activities of the riot police. The security bureau is also responsible for security intelligence on foreigners and radical political groups including investigation of violations of the Alien Registration Law and Administration of the entry and exit Control Law. The bureau also implements security policies during national emergencies and natural disasters
Security Bureau
The national Police Agency has seven regional police bureaus, each responsible for number of prefectures. Headed by Directors.
Regional Public Safety Bureau
Metropolitan Tokyo and the Island of Hokkaido are excluded from the regional jurisdictions and are run more autonomously than other local forces.
Police Communication Division
Each prefectural police headquarters contains administrative divisions corresponding to those of the bureaus of the National Police Agency.
Prefectural Police
Below these stations, koban- substations near major transportation hubs and shopping areas and in residential districts- form the first line of police response to the public. About twenty percent of the total police force is assigned to koban.
Police Boxes
Within the security divisions, each prefectural level police department and the Tokyo police maintain Kidotai, special riot units to respond quickly and effectively to large public disturbances. They are also used in crowd control during festivals periods, at times of natural disaster, and to reinforce regular police when necessary. Riot duties demands physical fitness-the armoured uniform weighed 6.6 kilograms- most personnel are young, often serving in the units after an initial assignment in a koban.
Riot Police
Martial Arts Attack Team special riot officer had been trained to handle incidents that cannot be dealt with the regular police and riot police officers, but can operate independently or with SAT cooperation.
Special Operations
Has a counter-terrorist unit known as the Special Assault Team, operating under police control.
The National Police Agency
Keishi- sokan (Superintendent General of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department)
Highest Police Rank in Japan
Junsa (Policeman)
Lowest Police Rank in japan
Israeli Ministry of Public Security
Governing Body
Kiryat HaMemshala (East Jerusalem)
National Headquarters of the Israeli Police