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Osaka City Municipal Police cars, c. 1948 –1955. This photograph predates the prefectural police system. In the Empire of Japan, territorial police forces were organised as departments of police of each prefectural offices (府県警察部 [], fuken-keisatsu-bu).
However, certain prefectural police, especially those serving prefectures with larger populations, have different names: Tokyo's police is the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (警視庁, Keishi-chō); Hokkaido's is known as Dō-keisatsu ; and Ōsaka's and Kyōto's are known as Fu-keisatsu (府警察).
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Headquarters in 1931. The TMPD was established by Japanese statesman Kawaji Toshiyoshi in 1874. Kawaji, who had helped establish the earlier rasotsu in 1871 following the disestablishment of the Edo period police system, was part of the Iwakura Mission to Europe, where he gathered information on Western policing; he was mostly inspired by the police of France ...
Imperial Guard of Japan; Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department; 46 prefecture police departments; Japan Coast Guard (known as the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency from 1949 to 2000) Ministry of Finance. Japan Customs; Ministry of Justice. Correctional Bureau; Immigration Services Agency
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department and Hokkaido Prefectural Police Headquarters are excluded from the jurisdiction of regional police bureaus. Headed by a Senior Commissioner, each regional police bureaus exercises necessary control and supervision over and provides support services to prefectural police within its jurisdiction, under the ...
The SAT is officially known in Japanese as simply Special Unit (特殊部隊, Tokushu Butai) and individual teams officially take the name of the police to which they are assigned; an example would be the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Special Unit (警視庁特殊部隊, Keishicho Tokushu Butai, Metropolitan Police Department Special ...
Japanese police officers (27 P) Police stations in Japan (3 P) Police units of Japan (2 C, 2 P) Prisoners and detainees of Japan (8 C, 54 P) S. Shinsengumi (20 P)
After that, it spread to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Chiba, Kanagawa, Yamanashi, Shizuoka, Kyoto, Tokushima, Hiroshima, Fukuoka, and Okinawa Prefectural Police Departments). On 17 May 2007, a member of the Aichi Prefectural Police Special Assault Team was killed in Nagakute after a man took his ex-wife hostage. During the 29 hour ...