National Police Agency Security Bureau (Japan)

The Security Bureau of the National Police Agency (警察庁警備局, Keisatsu-chō Keibi-kyoku) is a bureau of the Japan's National Police Agency in charge of national-level internal security affairs.[1][2] It supervises the Security Bureau and the Public Security Bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and Security Departments of the Prefectural Police Departments for those issues.[3][4]

The NPA SB is currently being commanded by Yoshihiko Oishi.[5]

It's known that the NPA has bureaucratic disputes with the JSDF since the former was rebuilt by the Allied Forces in order to monitor any signs of pro-Communist activities.[2]

Organization

Organization of the Security Bureau is as follows:[6]

Security Department

The Security Department (警備部, Keibi-bu) is charged with internal counter-terrorism, countering cybercrime and surveillance of potentially threatening groups, organisations, and social phenomena:[4] It's also tasked with providing close protection requirements to VIPs.[7]

  • Security Planning Division (警備企画課, Keibi Kikaku-ka)
    • Security Coordination Office
    • Image Data Analysis Office
    • Intelligence Coordination Analysis Office
    • Crisis Management Office
    • Cyber Attack Analysis Center
  • Public Security Division (公安課, Kōan-ka)
    • Intelligence Countermeasure Office
    • Far-Left Countermeasure Office
    • Far-Right Countermeasure Office
    • Special Organized Crime Countermeasure Office

Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Department

The Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Department (外事情報部, Gaiji-jōhō-bu) is charged with counter-intelligence, and international counter-terrorism:[8]

  • Foreign Affairs Division (外事課, Gaiji-ka)
    • Foreign Affairs Technical Investigation Office
    • Foreign Affairs Research Office
    • Foreign Affairs Special Case Countermeasure Office
    • Unauthorized Export Countermeasure Office
  • Counter International Terrorism Division (国際テロリズム対策課, Kokusai Terorizumu Taisaku-ka)
    • Counter International Terrorism Countermeasure Office

Security Operations Department

The Security Operations Department (警備運用部, Keibi-unyō-bu) replaced the former Security Division (警備課, Keibi-ka) in 2019.[9] It's mandated with security and protecting VIPs (1st Division) and response to large-scale disaster or terrorism (2nd Division).

  • First Security Operations Division (警備第一課, Keibi Daiichi-ka)
  • Second Security Operations Division (警備第二課, Keibi Daini-ka)

Training

Prospective SB officers are trained at the National Police Academy in intelligence gathering techniques.[10]

References
  1. Aftergood, Steven (12 October 2000). "FAS: Security Bureau". www.fas.org. fas.org. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  2. Davis & Gustafson 2013, p. 185.
  3. National Police Agency Police History Compilation Committee, ed. (1977). Japan post-war police history (in Japanese). Japan Police Support Association.
  4. National Police Agency. "Archived copy" 警察庁警備局　自由と繁栄の礎を築く (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2016-05-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXMZO39765980Y9A100C1EE8000/
  6. "ORGANIZATION & RESOURCES (POLICE OF JAPAN 2014)" (PDF). National Police Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-13. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
  7. https://www.stimson.org/sites/default/files/file-attachments/Tatsumi_%20Japan%27s_Security_Policy_Infrastructure_Final_Version.pdf
  8. National Police Agency. "Archived copy" 警察庁外事情報部　「外からの脅威」との闘い (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-09-24. Retrieved 2016-05-29.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. https://www.sankei.com/affairs/news/180829/afr1808290031-n1.html
  10. Andrew Oros (2008-06-09). "Japan's Growing Intelligence Capabilities" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-20. Retrieved 2019-05-23.

Bibliography
  • Davies, Philip H.J.; Gustafson, Kristian, eds. (2013). Intelligence Elsewhere: Spies and Espionage Outside the Anglosphere. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1589019560.
  • Samuels, Richard J. (2019). Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1501741586.
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