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 [ja].

Organization

Organization of the Security Bureau is as follows:[5]

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.[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)
    • 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.[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

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. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "ORGANIZATION & RESOURCES (POLICE OF JAPAN 2014)" (PDF). National Police Agency. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-13. Retrieved 2015-02-23.
  6. ^ https://www.stimson.org/sites/default/files/file-attachments/Tatsumi_%20Japan%27s_Security_Policy_Infrastructure_Final_Version.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Williams (2021), p. 8.
  9. ^ "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.
  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.
  • Williams, Brad (2021). Japanese Foreign Intelligence and Grand Strategy: From the Cold War to the Abe Era. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1647120634.