# Chief of a District Headquarters (方面本部長, ほうめんほんぶちょう) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/area-headquarters-chief. 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. - Group: Institutions, offices and documents - URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/area-headquarters-chief - In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/area-headquarters-chief - Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-04 The head of a district headquarters (方面本部) of the Hokkaido police. The Police Act (警察法) divides Hokkaido (道) into no more than five districts (方面) and places a district headquarters in each, except the district where the Hokkaido Police Headquarters (道警察本部) stands, to handle police work in that district (Police Act, Article 51, paragraph (1)); each has a chief (Article 51, paragraph (2)). The chief works under the administration of the district's District Public Safety Commission (方面公安委員会), oversees the headquarters' work, and, on the orders of the chief of the Hokkaido Police Headquarters (道警察本部長), directs and supervises its police officials (Article 51, paragraph (3)). Under the Anti-Stalking Act, the work that Act gives the chief of the Hokkaido Police Headquarters may be left to a Chief of a District Headquarters, as a Cabinet Order (政令) provides (Anti-Stalking Act, Article 16), and a District Public Safety Commission may have one do work the Hokkaido Public Safety Commission (道公安委員会) delegated to it (Article 17, paragraph (2)). Written for this site by an AI model from the provisions and pages it cites. Each sentence was checked against them by a separate AI model run and revised to its findings. Not reviewed by a lawyer. ## Provisions and sources it draws on - [Police Act, Art. 51](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000162) - [Anti-Stalking Act, Arts. 16, 17](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/412AC0100000081) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/anti-stalking-act ## Where the laws use it 3 laws in force use it in this sense, in 5 provisions; there the word opens this explanation. - [Anti-Stalking Act (ストーカー行為等の規制等に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/anti-stalking-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 16](https://japanlaw.org/en/anti-stalking-act/art-16), [Article 17](https://japanlaw.org/en/anti-stalking-act/art-17) - [Road Traffic Act (道路交通法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act): 2 provisions, among them [Article 114-2](https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-114-2), [Article 131](https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-131) - [Act on the Prevention of Spousal Violence and the Protection of Victims (配偶者からの暴力の防止及び被害者の保護等に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 8-2](https://japanlaw.org/en/spousal-violence-act/art-8-2) ## Related - [Act (法律, ほうりつ)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/act) - [Cabinet Order (政令, せいれい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/cabinet-order) - [District Public Safety Commission (方面公安委員会, ほうめんこうあんいいんかい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/area-public-safety-commission) - [Chief of a police station (警察署長, けいさつしょちょう)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/police-station-chief) --- ## Sources - Explanation: Written for this site with AI (claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-04) - Where it is used, and how often: Worked out by this site from e-Gov's text - English names of the laws: Japanese Law Translation, Ministry of Justice (3 records)