The local police in Japan are organized and commanded by local governments, mainly in blocks. Each local police agency is called the police headquarters, which is equivalent to the provincial public security department in China. The police headquarters of prefectures and counties are managed by the public security committees of prefectures and counties.

The order of Japanese police ranks: patrol-inspector general-patrol minister-police department supplement-police department-police-police-police chief-police inspector-police chief.

The jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police Department is limited to Tokyo, because Tokyo is the capital of Japan. In addition to protecting the citizens of Tokyo, the Metropolitan Police Department also has the responsibility of defending the country. Therefore, the police headquarters in other areas only accept the indirect supervision of the Japanese police department, and only the Tokyo police department is directly supervised by the police department and ordered by the police chief; The heads of police headquarters in prefectures and counties enjoy independent command and are relatively independent organs.

Japan's police system was founded by the Meiji government, and the "logical pawn" set in September 187 1 (Meiji 4) is the embryonic form of Japanese police. In the early Meiji period, police power was mainly owned by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Punishment.

However, with the establishment of the police, the police power of 187 1 was changed to the Ministry of Justice as a whole, and the Tokyo government was handed over to the Ministry of Justice for management. Meiji government carried out the institutional reform of learning from Kawaji Toshiyoshi, and handed over the police security team as a whole organization to the Ministry of Interior. On August 1874 and 15, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department was established as the capital police.

In the future, although the Japanese police were mostly appointed by the central ministries and commissions under the state-led system, they were eventually appointed by the Ministry of the Interior. So the national police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the capital police directly under the state are activated? The metropolitan police department and local police system established under the direct management of the governors of prefectures and counties have gradually taken shape.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia Japanese Police.