Features of the development of the Japanese police: history and modernity

This article highlights the issue of the history of the development of the Japanese police and its current state. The interest in this topic is due to the traditionally high level of security in modern Japan, which is ensured, among other things, due to the effective activities of its law enforcement system. The positive experience of the Japanese police in combating crime and ensuring law and order has already been borrowed by a number of Asian countries, but little studied in our country. The main focus of the article is on the consistent disclosure of the development process of law enforcement agencies in Japan. Three stages of their formation are highlighted. The current stage of development of law enforcement agencies in Japan is considered in more detail. The author presents the structure and size of the police, the peculiarities of the distribution of employees in the center and in the field, presents the functions of the police and the priority areas of its activities. The author highlights the issue of police interaction with citizens as the most important factor in ensuring security. In this aspect, the author believes that the experience of the Japanese police reform in the early 2000s deserves close attention, which ensured an increase in citizens' trust in the police, the development of new forms of interaction with the population, contributed to improving the quality of police activities and directly affected the results of law enforcement officers, first of all a decrease in crime and an increase in crime detection.