Country: JAPAN

Main police force: NATIONAL

POLICE AGENCY
Administrative body: NATIONAL
PUBLIC SAFETY
COMMISSION
Department: CENTRAL EXECUTIVE
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
CONTROL
POLICE RANKS
• Commissioner general
• Superintendent general
• Superintendent supervisor
• Chief superintendent
• Senior superintendent
• Superintendent
• Police inspector or captain
• Assistant police inspector or
lieutenant
• Police officer ,old patrolman
ENTRY QUALIFICATION
1. Japan citizen
2. Minimum age requirement
*male- 19 years of age
*female- 20 years of age
3. Must be physically and mentally
healthy
4. Must have 20/20 vision
5. Must not have criminal record
6. Does not have any left wing,
political leanings
7. Does not have trainted
background
8. Must have good religion
9. At least high school graduate
10. men’s height 160 cm, weight 47
kg, chest measurement 78 cm or
more
11. For women height 155 cm or
more, 45 kg or more
RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING
- Education is highly stressed in police recruitment
and promotion. Entrance to the force is determined
by examinations administered by each prefecture.
Examiners are divided into two groups;
1. Upper- secondary- school graduate
2. University graduates
Recruit underwent rigorous training
1. Upper-secondary-school graduate (1yr)
2. University graduate(6months)
PREFECTURAL POLICE SCHOOL
*University graduate (15months)
+ preserving training course
(6months)
+ other job training (3months)
+ preservice progress course
(2months)
+ actual exercise (4months)
High school graduate (21 months)
+ Preservice training course ( 10
months)
+ on the job training (3 month)
+ preservice progress course (3
months)
+ actual exercise ( 5 months)
• Recruitment procedure of NPA
police officers differ from those
of the prefectural police head
quarters
• NPA recruits fro those who have
passed the natural public service
examinations conducted by the
national personal authority.
These officers are assigned
either to the NPA or the PPH as
key numbers.
• NPA recruits from those who
have passed the national public
service examination conducted
 by the national personnel
authority. These officers are
assigned either to the NPA or the
PPH as key members.
• Prefectural police head quarters
applicants are administered an
exhaustine written examination
by the prefectural personnel
authorities in cooperation with
the PPH.
*Different examination are given in
accordance with the applicants
educational background, high
school or university graduates, each
recruited separately. PPH interview
those who pass the written
examination. Final selections are
mode based on an assessment of
applicants ability and capability to
the rigor of police duties.
1. All Japanese police recruits
undergo a standarized
curriculum set by Japan’s police
agency.
2. High school graduates
undergo 1 year of police school
3. After which, they are given
“hands on” experience through 3
months of field work.
4. Once the 3 months is over,
the recruits then return for 6
months more.
 5. College graduates undergo a
slightly different system. 3
months of field work, they only
attend police school for 8
months before hand and 4
months after.

6. Anyone attending their 1st year of police school

must live in a dormitory, even if they are married.
For single officers these requirements extend in to
their 1st 6 months of duty.
*all dorms maintain a curfew resident must obtain
special permission to stay out pass 11:00 pm.
*a recruit can enter the service as either a police or
anassisstant inspector.
“Organization/policing system”
• National public safety
commission (NPSC)
• National police agency (NPA)
• Organization attached to NPA
• 1. National police academy
2. National research Institute of
police science
3. Imperial guards
 • Internal Bureaus
1. Police administration
2. Criminal investigation
3. Traffic bureaus
4. Security bureaus
5. Regional public safety bureau
• Prefectural police
1. Prefectural police safety
commission (PPSC)
2. Tokyo metropolitan police
department and prefectural police
headquarters (PPH) (Hokkaido)
The koban and chuzaisho
• other police division under
prefectural police organization
1. Kidotai (special riot police)
2. Special assault team
3. Special police