Oh, speaking of which, we do have the Metropolitan Police Department, right?
I recalled
The Metropolitan Police Department is the police safety commission that’s managing the police organization only in Tokyo. The other prefectures have Prefectural Police, but Tokyo’s the only one with the name Metropolitan Police Department. Or how should I say it? Tokyo is the only city that needs a lot of organization that other prefectures’ police departments don’t have. We don’t have the same scale as the other cities, right? Nearly 10% of the Population of Japan live in the capital city area Meaning, the Metropolitan police department’s police officers are government employees under the umbrella of Tokyo Metropolis?
Mariko said.
Well, that’s only concerning the site. Therefore, when recruiting new police officers, each of the prefectures hires their own, and they also manage their own academies
Margo-san replies.
Err.
So the Metropolitan Police Department is only in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area.
Then the National Police Agency is for the whole country.
In other words, since the National Police Agency scopes the whole country, they manage the whole country as well. However, the truth is that they don’t have control of each administrative division of police. They have different lines. The National Police Agency is connected to the National Public Safety Commission from the Cabinet Office, but the prefectural police departments have to obey the public safety committee on the prefecture or the country. As for their wage, they receive money from each one The government official receives from the National Police Agency.
The local government employee receives from the prefecture.
But, that doesn’t mean that they’re completely separate
Margo-san smiles wryly.
The budget of the organization comes from the local but that doesn’t mean that they have to follow the governor of the prefecture. They say that the Administrative Divisions public safety commissions are a controlled study and are under the jurisdiction of the prefectural governor but the fact is the National Police Agency gives command directive on each prefectural police. To be precise, the National Police Agency creates a ‘precinct police bureau’ to ‘guide and supervise’ the prefectural police. Hokkaido and Tokyo Metropolitan Area are different, also, Tohoku, Kanto, Chubu, Kinki, Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu jurisdiction The police in each prefecture have their own self-governing body, and yet.
The prefectural police are tied up to several jurisdictions, and the National Police Agency controls them from above.
Do you know why they do that?
I don’t know. 1
I replied honestly.
For example, the prefectural governors are elected from various parties on each one, right? In some cases, a politician from an opposition party that is in rivalry with the ruling party that runs the national government becomes the governor of a prefecture yeah.
In that situation, where the prefecture police, are staff paid by money produced by the prefecture, and so when the prefectural governor says I’m the governor so you do what I tell you, it becomes chaotic, right? If the prefectures of the country have vastly different policies, the citizens won’t be able to understand them Oh, I see.
So that’s why even if the Administrative divisions have their own self-governing police, they still have to obey the National Police Agency
Mariko said.
That’s right. They’re a local authority and yet the prefectural governor has no control over them. While at it, among the district police officers, a police inspector that get promoted leaves the government employee title and becomes an officer. That’s the rank of department head at prefectural police headquarters. Meaning, they control not just the bosses on each prefecture but the pay coming from the country as well But, if the state has that much control, the prefecture won’t be able to speak their opinion or complains, will they?
Mariko asks frankly.
That’s what the public safety commission on each prefecture is for. The Public Safety Commission, which is supposed to ‘manage’ the police in each county in the system, is actually the coordinator between the county and the county police. Thus, they make the system where they listen to the demands of each prefecture Margo-san said.
That system.it’s a bit hard to determine if it’s good or not in a lot of ways. That’s the shape of the system but the fact is that they’re making complicated promises. Well, if the country gives an order of how the police should move, then it will go through the National Police Agency, then it will go from top to bottom of each police field on the prefectures and they’ll follow it without delay. They do what the country decides. That’s how it is, however.
Yeah.
However, the police officers on the scene also think We receive orders from the country, but we’re actually from a different organization. We belong to our local government After all, their position are all different. The people ordering from Tokyo are the elite government officials, and they’re local government employees. The wage structure is completely different. If you don’t rise through the ranks and become a police inspector, you won’t be able to compete on an equal footing with the people in the Tokyo Police Department The police organizations of the country follow the rules of the country, but.
The structure of the organization is different between the ‘central’ and the ‘field’ and the position of the police officers working there is different.
After all, the police officers on the field study in the police academy but those in the central government’s national police agency go to a different academy than theirs. There will be a difference as those from the national police agency are called elites Margo-san smiles wryly.
Well, the power of the state takes swings from commanding and leading, and it’s a special case and so for the ordinary police officers, they just do their duty on the field without any changes. The country won’t be complaining about every brawl in town, shoplifters, a bike thief, or missing children. Tokyo’s national police agency will only speak on special cases Special.
Yes, for example. Remember when the police are monitoring this mansion because Kyouko-san’s seen here?
They always had someone stick in front of the gates since May.
They face against the Kouzuki SS surveillance team.
We call those people Security police, but officially, if they’re from the Metropolitan Police Department, then they’re Public Security, if it’s outside the administrative divisions, then it’s police affiliated with defense,.Meaning, those people are policemen who are local government employees affiliated prefectural police division I see. I was sure that the security police was a special organization in the country.
Naturally.the national police agency has public safety division, although, it doesn’t have its police officers working on the field. Their job is only to guide the police officers in the public safety in the administrative divisions of the country I see.
If I recall, our country also has the Public Security Intelligence Agency, right?
Mariko asks.
The Public Security Intelligence Agency is an external bureau of the Ministry of Justice. They’re not a police organization. Their work is subversive activity and examining activities that might be an act of terror. They can do on-site inspection arbitrarily, but they can’t do a compulsory search, household search, nor arrest people. They’re government officials, and they’re a completely different organization from the police Margo-san replied.
So, the man whose arrest is possibly fabricated on the news, what organization is he in?
I think that he’s in the top brass of the national police agency
I recalled and answered.
Then that means.
They’re not the policemen on-site, but the government officials?