# Prefectural Public Safety Commission (都道府県公安委員会, とどうふけんこうあんいいんかい)

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- Group: Institutions, offices and documents
- URL: https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/prefectural-public-safety-commission
- In Japanese: https://japanlaw.org/ja/concepts/prefectural-public-safety-commission
- Written by: AI, 2026-09-29

A commission the Police Act (警察法) places in each prefecture under the jurisdiction of its governor (都道府県知事) (Police Act, Article 38, paragraph (1)). It administers that prefecture's police (都道府県警察) (Article 38, paragraph (3)). It has five members in Tokyo (都), Hokkaido (道), Osaka and Kyoto (府) and in a prefecture that contains a city designated under the Local Autonomy Act (指定市), and three in any other prefecture (Article 38, paragraph (2)). The governor appoints the members, with the consent of the prefectural assembly, from people eligible to stand for that assembly who have not been career public officials doing police or prosecution work in the five years before their appointment; in Hokkaido, Osaka, Kyoto and a prefecture that contains a designated city (指定市), two of the members are people the mayor of that city recommends with the consent of the city assembly (Article 39, paragraph (1)). Under the Secondhand Goods Business Act, a person who intends to run a business buying, selling or exchanging secondhand goods — other than one that only sells them, or only buys back what it sold from the person it sold to — or to run a secondhand goods market must first obtain its permit; that Act calls it the Public Safety Commission (公安委員会) (Secondhand Goods Business Act, Article 2, paragraph (2), items (i) and (ii), and Article 3, paragraph (1)).

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. 38, 39](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/329AC0000000162)
- [Secondhand Goods Business Act, Arts. 2, 3](https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/324AC0000000108) — on this site: https://japanlaw.org/en/secondhand-goods-business-act

## Where the laws use it

7 laws in force use it in this sense, in 14 provisions; there the word opens this explanation.

- [Secondhand Goods Business Act (古物営業法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/secondhand-goods-business-act): 5 provisions, among them [Article 3](https://japanlaw.org/en/secondhand-goods-business-act/art-3), [Supplementary Provisions](https://japanlaw.org/en/secondhand-goods-business-act/suppl-3291-163), [Supplementary Provisions](https://japanlaw.org/en/secondhand-goods-business-act/suppl-3531-54)
- [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): 3 provisions, among them [Article 8](https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act/art-8), [Article 19](https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act/art-19), [Article 22](https://japanlaw.org/en/criminal-proceeds-act/art-22)
- [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): 2 provisions, among them [Article 1](https://japanlaw.org/en/unauthorized-computer-access-act/art-1), [Article 9](https://japanlaw.org/en/unauthorized-computer-access-act/art-9)
- [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): 1 provision, among them [Article 5](https://japanlaw.org/en/anti-stalking-act/art-5)
- [Unfair Competition Prevention Act (不正競争防止法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 35](https://japanlaw.org/en/unfair-competition-prevention-act/art-35)
- [Road Traffic Act (道路交通法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 4](https://japanlaw.org/en/road-traffic-act/art-4)
- [Lost Property Act (遺失物法)](https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act): 1 provision, among them [Article 25](https://japanlaw.org/en/lost-property-act/art-25)

## Related

- [National Public Safety Commission (国家公安委員会, こっかこうあんいいんかい)](https://japanlaw.org/en/concepts/national-public-safety-commission)

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## Sources

- Explanation: Written for this site with AI (2026-09-29)
- 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 (6 records)
- English names of the laws: Written for this site with AI