District Public Safety Commission

A commission the Police Act (警察法) sets up in Hokkaido (道). Hokkaido is divided into no more than five districts (方面), and each district except the one where the Hokkaido Police Headquarters (道警察本部) stands has a district headquarters (方面本部) that handles police work in that district (Police Act, Article 51, paragraph (1)). A District Public Safety Commission is placed in each such district to administer its district headquarters (Article 46, paragraph (1)), and the Chief of the District Headquarters (方面本部長) works under its administration (Article 51, paragraph (3)). Under the Anti-Stalking Act, the Hokkaido Public Safety Commission (道公安委員会) may delegate its work under that Act to a District Public Safety Commission, as a Cabinet Order (政令) provides, and a District Public Safety Commission may have the Chief of a District Headquarters or a police station chief (警察署長) do the work delegated to it (Anti-Stalking Act, Article 15 and Article 17, paragraph (2)).