## 2 ) Guard and Patrol Activities

Working with the Community Police Special Dispatch Unit (maximum 449 officers per day, 210 patrol vehicles), the police in the three affected prefectures pressed ahead with guard and patrol activities.

Community Police Special Dispatch Unit patrol

## 3 ) Activities in the Vicinity of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant

As the number of confirmed cases of larceny such as empty house break-ins and shop robberies increased significantly in the vicinity of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant from where the majority of residents were evacuated, the Fukushima Prefectural Police formed a special security unit and reinforced security structures through measures such as the implementation of priority patrols.

## (2) Crackdown on Opportunist Crime

## 1 ) Initial Investigations and other Activities

Working with the Mobile Investigation Special Dispatch Unit (maximum 92 officers per day, 23 police vehicles), the police in the three affected prefectures restored and maintained enforcement capabilities.

## 2 ) Measures against Opportunist Fraudulent

## Business, Scams and other Crimes

With the occurrence of opportunist fraudulent business and scams from the earthquake, the police gather and share relevant information with related agencies and organizations such as the Consumer Affairs Center to crack down hard on such activities, and promote public relations and enlightenment activities utilizing government announcements, websites and other means as well as provide information to allow accounts to be frozen, in order to prevent the damage caused by such activities from spreading.

## 3 ) Excluding Organized Crime Groups

(Boryokudan) from Recovery and

## Reconstruction

In order to prevent the involvement of Boryokudan and other organized crime groups, in recovery and reconstruction projects, in addition to gaining an understanding of the movements of such crime groups and engaging in a thorough crackdown on such groups, the police are reinforcing ties with relevant agencies and organizations by requesting all industry groups, such as construction and waste disposal companies to introduce clauses stipulating the exclusion of organized crime groups in their contracts and other documents.

A session of the Council for the Promotion of

Measures for the Exclusion of Organized Crime

## (3) Victim Support

A unit (maximum 115 officers per day) was dispatched to counsel victims and provide crime prevention guidance and other services. Female police officers and other personnel undertook activities by visiting shelters and temporary housing. In addition, measures were taken to extend the validity period of driving licenses of victims whose licenses expired after the date of the earthquake.

Female police officers visiting a shelter

## 4 Police Response Structure

## (1) Establishing Initial Response Structure

## 1 ) Setting up Security Headquarters and Coordination with Related Agencies

On March 11, 2011, the NPA set up the NPA Disaster Security Headquarters, headed by the Director General of the Security Bureau at 2:46pm and the NPA Emergency Disaster Countermeasures Headquarters, headed by the Commissioner General of the NPA, at 3:14pm. In addition, the prefectural police forces nationwide all set up disaster security headquarters, headed by the Chiefs