# 刑事訴訟法 / Code of Criminal Procedure — 第百九十四条 (Article 194) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-194. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 刑事訴訟法 (Code of Criminal Procedure), 昭和二十三年法律第百三十一号 - English title "Code of Criminal Procedure": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第百九十四条 (Article 194) — address `art-194` - Text in force since: 2026-10-20 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-194 - e-Gov law ID: 323AC0000000131 — never renamed. A permanent link, `/l/{lawId}/{address}` on this site, redirects to the page. - Every provision below carries its address and its URL on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第百九十四条 art-194 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-194 **第一項** 検事総長、検事長又は検事正は、司法警察職員が正当な理由がなく検察官の指示又は指揮に従わない場合において必要と認めるときは、警察官たる司法警察職員については、国家公安委員会又は都道府県公安委員会に、警察官たる者以外の司法警察職員については、その者を懲戒し又は罷免する権限を有する者に、それぞれ懲戒又は罷免の訴追をすることができる。 art-194/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-194/par-1 The Prosecutor-General, Superintending Prosecutor of the High Public Prosecutors Office or Chief of the District Public Prosecutors Office may, if deeming it necessary when judicial police officials fail to follow the instructions and orders of public prosecutors without a justifiable reason, file charges for disciplinary action against them or for their removal, either with the National Public Safety Commission or Prefectural Public Safety Commission in the case of judicial police officials who are police officials, or with the person who has the authority of disciplinary action or removal where they are judicial police officials other than police officials. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 国家公安委員会、都道府県公安委員会又は警察官たる者以外の司法警察職員を懲戒し若しくは罷免する権限を有する者は、前項の訴追が理由のあるものと認めるときは、別に法律の定めるところにより、訴追を受けた者を懲戒し又は罷免しなければならない。 art-194/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-194/par-2 The National Public Safety Commission, the Prefectural Public Safety Commission, or the person who has the authority to take disciplinary action against or remove judicial police officials other than police officials must, when it deems the charges given in the preceding paragraph to be well-founded, take disciplinary action against the persons charged or remove them, as prescribed by other acts. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The National Public Safety Commission, the Prefectural Public Safety Commission, or the person who has the authority to file disciplinary action or remove judicial police officials other than police officials must, when it deems the charges given in the preceding paragraph to be well-founded, take disciplinary action against the persons charged or remove them, as prescribed by other acts." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb --- ## Cites - art-194/par-2: 前項 → 刑事訴訟法 第百九十四条第一項 (Article 194, paragraph (1)), art-194/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-194/par-1 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 刑事訴訟法 第百九十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/code-of-criminal-procedure/art-194/par-2 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Code of Criminal Procedure, written 2026-11-06 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 刑事訴訟法 — the text in force from 2026-10-20 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000131/20261020_508AC0000000067), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure (刑事訴訟法), Article 194, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Code of Criminal Procedure — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/3739/tb), retrieved 2026-11-06 - This site's parser, version 225 — 刑事訴訟法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-06