How is the police in Japan? and your countries?

[SudanSon]

Beautiful greetings to all the members

I want to ask you about extremely important issue........

The police........the authorized governmental corporation that saves the

security in the country......

My following questions concern Japan & all your countries (the members

countries)

How efficient is the police?

In responding to crimes or incidences,how quick are they? do they come by

calling them by telephone very quickly?

How can you describe the ethics of the policemen (whether they're small

soldiers or high ranks)? are they kind & friendly? are they polite or rude?

Are the policemen qualified ethically & culturally?

Do you feel that they really & loyally serve & help the people?

Do they have a good amount of etiquette in treating the citizens?

How do they treat the citizens & the public population?

How do they treat the prisonners?

Do they respect the human rights?

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Greetings to all of you....

[Suki]

They're pretty bad ass. With their preppy uniforms and their shiny cars.

I'll throw in a picture:




Yeah, they are very efficient, especially when they have to deal with angry students in the middle of a demonstration.

[RealJames]

(in Japan)

it's hard to tell how good the police are cuz hardly any crime happens, they drive around all the time with their lights on not really doing anything...

every now and then when someone calls it's like a flock of bored cops come rushing to the scene along with all the news cameras ><

[Ayame90]

Well, i can't speak for the U.S. as a whole, but i can speak for my state police, municiple and district police of my town, they take their job to heart and are very strict. Crimes only occur when we have newcomers or wannabe badasses.

[GoNative]

Here in Japan I have pretty major issues with policing and the justice system as a whole. In the vast majority of cases when investigating a crime very little physical or forensic evidence is used to gain convictions. The police still very much rely on confessions for convictions. Without a confession often cases won't go to court. The system is set up to allow police plenty of time to extract their confessions though. You can be held up to 21 days without being charged and in that time you will have frequent interrorgations and you have no right to have a lawyer present during them. They are also not recorded in any way. It is obviously a practice that is open to abuse by the police to force confessions from people and there have been plenty of cases where people have been wrongly convicted after forced confessions. There are numerous law groups in Japan (and elsewhere) attempting to change these procedures but the police here appear to have quite a bit of power.

[RealJames]

Originally Posted by GoNative

Here in Japan I have pretty major issues with policing and the justice system as a whole. In the vast majority of cases when investigating a crime very little physical or forensic evidence is used to gain convictions. The police still very much rely on confessions for convictions. Without a confession often cases won't go to court. The system is set up to allow police plenty of time to extract their confessions though. You can be held up to 21 days without being charged and in that time you will have frequent interrorgations and you have no right to have a lawyer present during them. They are also not recorded in any way. It is obviously a practice that is open to abuse by the police to force confessions from people and there have been plenty of cases where people have been wrongly convicted after forced confessions. There are numerous law groups in Japan (and elsewhere) attempting to change these procedures but the police here appear to have quite a bit of power.

I just learned an awful lot about the police where I live from you.
A lot of that is judicial stuff though.

In day to day life police has had no part of my life since I came to japan, other than asking for directions in the police boxes now and then. But back home police would stop me quite often for stupid nonsense...

[GoNative]

Just don't get accused of anything and you'll probably never have a problem with the police here
Get accused of something and your Japanese experience could turn into a nightmare rather quickly...

[JohnBraden]

Originally Posted by Suki

They're pretty bad ass. With their preppy uniforms and their shiny cars.

I'll throw in a picture:




Yeah, they are very efficient, especially when they have to deal with angry students in the middle of a demonstration.

I'm sure they're much less violent than these guys used to be under Franco!

[Suki]

Originally Posted by JohnBraden

I'm sure they're much less violent than these guys used to be under Franco!

I didn't say violent, I said efficient. I'm not against violent ways used as last resort, but they tend to go a bit loose on their nightstick.

[JohnBraden]

Originally Posted by Suki

I didn't say violent, I said efficient. I'm not against violent ways used as last resort, but they tend to go a bit loose on their nightstick.

Never implied you saying violent, ,but I remember the Benemerita keeping the peace through intimidation and brutal repression.... things were much different then....

Do they still have Policia Nacional (the brown uniformed guys) in Catalunya, or in Spain for that matter? Has the jurisdiction system changed? Last time I set foot on Spanish soil was in 1990, so I know many things have changed....