National Police Agency (Japan)

National Police Agency 警察庁 Keisatsu-chō
Abbreviation	NPA
Logo of the National Police Agency
Agency overview
Formed	July 1, 1954 (1954-07-01)
Employees	7,721 (2013)
Annual budget	¥258,344M (FY 2005/6)
Legal personality	Governmental: Government agency
Jurisdictional structure
National agency	Japan
General nature	Law enforcement Civilian agency
Operational structure
Headquarters	2-1-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-8974, Japan
Civilians	4,900
Parent agency	National Public Safety Commission
Child agencies	National Police Academy National Research Institute of Police Science Imperial Guard Headquarters
Bureaus	5 Community Safety Criminal Investigation Traffic Bureau security Bureau Info-Communications
Regional Bureaus	7 Chubu—covering prefectures: Toyama Ishikawa Fukui Gifu Aichi Mie Chugoku—covering prefectures: Tottori Shimane Okayama Hiroshima Yamaguchi Kanto—covering prefectures: Ibaraki Gunma Saitama Chiba Kanagawa Niigata Yamanashi Nagano Shizuoka Kinki—covering prefectures: Shiga Kyoto Osaka Hyogo Nara Wakayama Kyushu—covering prefectures: Fukuoka Saga Nagasaki Kumamoto Oita Miyazaki Kagoshima Okinawa Shikoku—covering prefectures: Tokushima Kagawa Ehime Kochi Tohoku—covering prefectures: Aomori Iwate Miyagi Akita Yamagata Fukushima
Website
www.npa.go.jp/english/index.htm (English) www.npa.go.jp (Japanese)
Footnotes
See the reference below for the source of the above data.

Chugoku—covering prefectures:

Kanto—covering prefectures:

Kinki—covering prefectures:

Kyushu—covering prefectures:

Shikoku—covering prefectures:

Tohoku—covering prefectures:

The National Police Agency (警察庁, Keisatsu-chō^?) is an agency administered by the National Public Safety Commission of the Cabinet Office of the Cabinet of Japan, and is the central coordinating agency of the Japanese police system.

Unlike comparable bodies, such as the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, the NPA does not have any operational units of its own. Instead, its role is to determine general standards and policies, although in national emergencies or large-scale disasters the agency is authorized to take command of prefectural police forces.

Police services of the Empire of Japan were placed under complete centralized control with the Police Affairs Bureau (, Keiho-kyoku^?) of the Home Ministry at their core. But after the surrender of Japan, the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers regarded this centralized police system as undemocratic.