Crime prevention Measures and Community Planning,” Prefectural Police with jurisdiction over major shopping and entertainment districts are working to revitalize them as sound and attractive shopping and entertainment districts by strengthening regulations on crime syndicates including Boryokudan, illegal employment, adult entertainment shops in shopping and entertainment districts, while also promoting mechanisms to effectively integrate the creation of attractive new districts.

Note: The Police added the cities where measures should especially be promoted to the cities exemplified to develop model framework in the Project for Rebuilding Safe and Secure Urban Areas

1) Cracking Down on Illegal Adult Shops, Solicitation, Free Adult Shop Information Centers, etc.

In order to clean up the environment in shopping and entertainment districts, the police force is reinforcing control over illegal businesses.

## 2 ) Cracking Down Organized Crime in Shopping and Entertainment Districts

Boryokudans continue to actively acquire capital in shopping and entertainment districts through means such as participating in the management of illegal adult shops and casinos, illicit sales of controlled fees from adult shops and other locations. Furthermore, cases of conflict among Boryokudans and between Boryokudans and foreign crime syndicates or other groups over vested interests are occurring in shopping and entertainment districts. The police are making use of all laws and ordinances in reinforcing their crackdowns.

## 3 ) Cooperation with the Relevant Administrative Agencies and Organizations

The police are aiming to revive shopping and entertainment districts as sound and attractive places by cooperating with the Immigration Bureau, Fire Department and other relevant government agencies to carry out measures including joint crackdowns and spot inspections, as well as cooperating with crime prevention volunteer groups and Federation of Shopping Center Promotion Associations etc. to promote efforts such as joint patrols, city environmental purification activities and Boryokudan elimination movements.

## 4 ) Restoring and Improving Traffic Order and Generating Vitality

Traffic order is deteriorating in shopping and entertainment districts on account of illegal placement in the streets of billboards for adult shops, and illegal parking and regular business being conducted in the streets by street booths and stalls. In order to rectify and improve traffic order in shopping and entertainment districts, police are cooperating with road administrators and others to narrow roads through installation of bollards and the like, while also instructing and cracking down on malicious, dangerous, and troublesome illegal parking and unauthorized use of roadways. Moreover, the police are working to expedite licensing procedures for road use required for holding events when local public entities participate in local revitalization events, as part of their efforts to create a sound and bustling city, while taking the societal impact into account.

## 5 ) Efforts toward Developing Appealing Urban

The police are making efforts to strengthen the cooperation structure between government and private sectors through opportunities such as the council on developing urban areas, from the viewpoint of the police, while providing necessary information and working proactively, in order to realize the necessary measures for the revitalization of sound and appealing urban areas in shopping and entertainment districts.

### 5. Collaboration with Local Communities to Restore Public Safety

## (1) Activities of Crime Prevention Volunteer Groups

In order to build safe and reassuring communities, it is important to form communities that are tough on crime by raising crime prevention awareness and promoting independent crime prevention activities among the Japanese people.

The number of confirmed groups as of the end of December 2008 was approximately 40,538 nationwide $ ^{1} $ .