National Police Agency (Japan)

National Police Agency 警察庁 Keisatsu-chō
The Kyokujitsushou
Abbreviation	NPA
Agency overview
Formed	July 1, 1954 (1954-07-01)
Preceding agency	National Rural Police Headquarters [ja] (国家地方警察本部, Kokka Chihō Keisatsu Honbu)
Employees	7,995 (2020)[1]
Annual budget	¥360.348 billion (2020)[2]
Legal personality	Law enforcement agency
Jurisdictional structure
National agency	Japan
Operations jurisdiction	Japan
Operational structure
Headquarters	2-1-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo 100-8974, Japan
Civilians	4,800
Agency executive	Yasuhiro Tsuyuki, Commissioner General
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 Cyber Affairs
Regional Bureaus	6 Tōhoku—covering prefectures: Aomori Iwate Miyagi Akita Yamagata Fukushima Kantō—covering prefectures: Ibaraki Tochigi Gunma Saitama Chiba Kanagawa Niigata Yamanashi Nagano Shizuoka Chūbu—covering prefectures: Toyama Ishikawa Fukui Gifu Aichi Mie Kinki—covering prefectures: Shiga Kyoto Osaka Hyogo Nara Wakayama Chūgoku–Shikoku—covering prefectures: Tottori Shimane Okayama Hiroshima Yamaguchi Tokushima Kagawa Ehime Kochi Kyūshū—covering prefectures: Fukuoka Saga Nagasaki Kumamoto Oita Miyazaki Kagoshima Okinawa
Website
www.npa.go.jp/english/index.html (in English) www.npa.go.jp (in Japanese)
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The National Police Agency (警察庁, Keisatsu-chō) is the central coordinating law enforcement agency of the Japanese police system. Unlike national police in other countries, the NPA does not have any operational units of its own aside from the Imperial Guard; rather, it is responsible for supervising Japan's 47 prefectural police departments and determining their general standards and policies, though it can command police agencies under it in national emergencies or large-scale disasters. It is under the National Public Safety Commission of the Cabinet Office.^[4]

As of 2017, the NPA has a strength of approximately 7,800 personnel: 2,100 sworn officers, 900 guards, and 4,800 civilian staff.^[5]