[48.-12] The Continuation of the Source of the Police Department

English translation is automatic translation.

In September 2021, the appointments of the Commissioner of the National Police Agency and the Superintendent General of the Metropolitan Police Department were made at the same time.

• The appointments of the chief executives of the police organizations of the nation and the capital, Tokyo, were made at the same time, at a time of political unrest under the LDP presidential election.
• Both of these appointments were made at the same time, both of whom had served as secretaries to the Prime Minister's Office for five and six years, respectively, and both of whom had been at the center of the Cabinet.
• This appointment is a special situation because of the simultaneous appointments and the common factor of having been secretaries to the Prime Minister's Office.
• This appointment is a difficult conflict between the current government and administration and the police force. It is easy to form a relationship that does not allow for fairness in the respective scandals.
• For example, there was a time when Commissioner Nakamura was the chief of the Metropolitan Police Department's Criminal Investigation Department. During that time, a man and a woman were assaulted by a journalist, and the alleged assailant made a phone call to an acquaintance, an intelligence officer of the Cabinet Intelligence and Research Office from the Security Bureau of the National Police Agency, begging him to avoid arrest. The intelligence officer informed the then Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department, Mr. Nakamura, and he gave the order to refrain from arresting him as he wished.
• The fact that he himself admitted that he had given the order to refrain from arrest was highly evaluated by the Security Bureau of the National Police Agency and others, and he was appointed to the post of Deputy Director-General of the National Police Agency.

• However, the order to forbear from arrest was an abuse of his authority and a violation of the mission of the police, which plays an important role in the criminal justice system, to confirm the facts of a suspect's case and to send him to the police station for prosecution.

• Is this appointment of the Commissioner of the National Police Agency, the highest authority in charge of Japan's security administration, permissible this time?

• The National Police Agency's Security Bureau is in denial at this time.

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