Japanese Police Work Customs

Picture of Japanese police 

Japan is one of the safest country in the world. Research shows a number of factors that proves crime rates in Japan are very low. This is because of violence prohibition in Japanese culture. Things that causes anger and aggression are emabrassing things for Japanese society.

The security of a country certainly can’t be seperated from the role of the police. What is the difference between police in Indonesia and Japan? It’s very interesting to discuss especially if you want to live in Japan. So here is about the Japanese police:

1.                  First Impression

If you see the police in Japan it is very different from Indonesia. Japanese policies may seems ineffective in threating criminals. How can this impression arises? Yup, you will see that policies in Japan use bicycle or small car to patrol. 

If you think that Japanese policies are ineffective then you are wrong. Police in Japan has a great strength. They can detain someone for 23 days for questioning without accusation, without guarantees offered and without legal representation, wah it sounds weird right? Police in Japan believes that most of the defendants in Japan admitted their mistakes after being interrogated.

2.                  The funniest police

Japan is known as a friendly person. Japanese people like funny things. In Japan funny characters are needed as advertisements to sell everything. This also affects the police in Japan, every police in Japan has a unique and funny logo character.

 The best known police character comes from Tokyo Metrapolitan Police Departement “Pipo-kun”.

Pipo-kun character

This is a poster of the police to report a crime to a Japanese emergency number (110) which is made with funny or even horrible.

3.                  There are so many policies in Japan

According to the information I read you can meet the police anywhere in Tokyo. Police in Japan will handle the slightest problem, for example a lost bicycle. If you break the rules of cycling parking, bicycle will usually be confiscated. You can pay a fine to get your bike back, because crime rates is very low in Japan so the police attention much about crime in cycling but it’s not like crime in Indonesia, the criminal just because break the rules of cycling.

Eg. rules of cycling in Japan

If you don’t know the direction you can ask the police. Roads in Japan are narrow and winding, address writing in Japan is very complex usually there is no street name. Japanese people often get lost so it is very common to them to ask the police. Japanese police has map and they will find your destination immediately.

The positive things in Japan is that the citizens are very comfortable around the police.

Those are about the police in Japan. Which one interest you more police in Japan or Indonesia?^^

Thanks for reading..