National Police Agency Security Bureau
The National Police Agency Security Bureau (警察庁警備局, Keisatsu-chō Keibi-kyoku) is a bureau of the 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 other Prefectural police headquarters for those issues.[3][4]
The current chief of the Security Bureau is Yūji Sakoda.
Organization
editOrganization of the Security Bureau is as follows:[5]
Security Department
editThe 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.[6]
- 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)
Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Department
editThe Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Department (外事情報部, Gaiji-jōhō-bu) is charged with counter-intelligence, and international counter-terrorism.[7] It has a unit known as YAMA, which has access to classified information based on intercepts from various communications facilities.[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
editThe 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
editProspective SB officers are trained at the National Police Academy in intelligence gathering techniques.[10]
References
edit- ^ Aftergood, Steven (12 October 2000). "FAS: Security Bureau". www.fas.org. fas.org. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- ^ Davis & Gustafson (2013), p. 185.
- ^ National Police Agency Police History Compilation Committee, ed. (1977). Japan post-war police history (in Japanese). Japan Police Support Association.
- ^ a b National Police Agency. 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.
- ^ "ORGANIZATION & RESOURCES (POLICE OF JAPAN 2014)" (PDF). National Police Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-13. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
- ^ https://www.stimson.org/sites/default/files/file-attachments/Tatsumi_%20Japan%27s_Security_Policy_Infrastructure_Final_Version.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ National Police Agency. 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.
- ^ Williams (2021), p. 8.
- ^ "災害・対テロで「警備運用部」 １５年ぶり新部 警察庁が組織改正案（1/2ページ） - 産経ニュース". Archived from the original on 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
- ^ 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
edit- 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.
- Williams, Brad (2021). Japanese Foreign Intelligence and Grand Strategy: From the Cold War to the Abe Era. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1647120634.