# District Public Safety Commission (方面公安委員会, ほうめんこうあんいいんかい) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/area-public-safety-commission. 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-public-safety-commission - In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/area-public-safety-commission - Written by: claude-opus-5-5, 2026-10-04 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)). 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, Arts. 46, 51](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000162) - [Anti-Stalking Act, Arts. 15, 17](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/412AC0100000081) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/anti-stalking-act ## Where the laws use it 6 laws in force use it in this sense, in 9 provisions; there the word opens this explanation. - [Road Traffic Act (道路交通法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act): 3 provisions, among them [Article 114](https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-114), [Article 114-2](https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-114-2), [Article 124](https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-124) - [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 15](https://japanlaw.org/en/anti-stalking-act/art-15), [Article 17](https://japanlaw.org/en/anti-stalking-act/art-17) - [Act on Prohibition of Unauthorized Computer Access (不正アクセス行為の禁止等に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/unauthorized-computer-access-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 9](https://japanlaw.org/en/unauthorized-computer-access-act/art-9) - [Secondhand Goods Business Act (古物営業法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/secondhand-goods-business-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 28](https://japanlaw.org/en/secondhand-goods-business-act/art-28) - [Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds (犯罪による収益の移転防止に関する法律)](https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 22](https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act/art-22) - [Lost Property Act (遺失物法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 38](https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-38) ## 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) - [Chief of a District Headquarters (方面本部長, ほうめんほんぶちょう)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/area-headquarters-chief) - [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 (5 records) - English names of the laws: Written for this site with AI