National Public Safety Commission (Japan)

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2nd Building of the Central Common Government Office, the building which houses the commission

The National Public Safety Commission (国家公安委員会, Kokka Kōan Iinkai^?) is a Japanese Cabinet Office commission. It is headquartered in the 2nd Building of the Central Common Government Office at 2-1-2 Kasumigasaeki in Chiyoda, Tokyo.^[1][2]

The commission consists of a chairman, who holds the rank of Minister of State, and five members appointed by the prime minister with the consent of both houses of the Diet. The commission operates independently of the cabinet, but coordinates with it through the Minister of State.

The commission's function is to guarantee the neutrality of the police system by insulating the force from political pressure and ensuring the maintenance of democratic methods in police administration. It administers the National Police Agency, and has the authority to appoint or dismiss senior police officers.

[edit] List of current members

• Hiroshi Nakai (Chairman; from Democratic Party of Japan)
• Yukio Sato (Former ambassador to Australia and Netherlands)
• Yoshiyuki Kasai (Central Japan Railway Company Chairman)
• Mariko Hasegawa (Anthropology Professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies)
• Kenjiro Tao (Former judge)
• Nobuyuki Yoshida (National Institute of Animal Healthresearcher)

[edit] List of former chairmen

• Sadakazu Tanigaki

[edit] In fiction

• The NPSC appears as 国家公安委員会, translated in English as "National Public Safety Committee" in the 1988~2000 manga series Kerberos Panzer Cop. The English designation is featured in the volume editions published in Japan and Asia. However, "National Public Safety Commission" is used in the English adaptation.

• The NPSC is also featured in Kerberos Panzer Cop's theatrical adaptation Jin-Roh released in 1999.

• In the anime series Digimon Savers, the NPSC oversees the DATS organization, which monitors the emergence of digital and artificial lifeforms and seeks to keep their existence secret from the general public.

[edit] Ghost in the Shell

In the manga and anime series Ghost in the Shell, Public Security Section 9 is an anti-crime and cyber warfare organisation under the NPSC. In the Manga and Anime, by 2030 the jurisdictions of the the NPSC have been expanded to elite teams dealing with each legally defined section of Public Security. Some of the organisational jurisdictions include:

• Section 1: National Police Agency, now tasked with Internal Affairs of the Japanese Prefectural Police, and also able to mount small-scale covert operations within Japan.
• Section 4: The Rangers. Identical with their American Counterparts (and occasionally exchanging personnel during international joint operations), the membership of the Rangers are all outfitted with advanced cybernetic multi-phase eye implants, and thermo-optical camouflage.
• Section 6: Law Enforcement Special Team, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Section 6 is responsible for the security of the Minister, and with acting within the interests of Japan's international security. They often are tasked with intelligence gathering from embassies and nationals within Japan to the advantage of the country. On occasion they have had territorial disputes with Section 9. Their activities are similar to those of the British MI6 in terms of missions and responsibility to the Cabinet Foreign Office.
• Section 9: Special Circumstances Bio-crime, Cybercrime and Government Oversight. This directorate is the smallest of the sections of the NSPC. It is charged with investigating breached of the public peace, and where legally sanctioned, in armed intervention with para-military force. Members are explicitly Police Officers with respect to other officers. Further, Section 9 is a governmental oversight, able to take action against breaches of Public Security by members of the Assembly or the Ministries, including their own.

[edit] See also

• Public safety

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official website (in Japanese)

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