都市の警邏警察

その機能と役割

抄録

This paper explores how patrol officers do their routine activities under changing organizational conditions of the Tokyo police since the late 1960's, which have led to the specialization and bureaucratization of the patrol police with increasing emphasis on efficiency and the enhancement of internal competition among patrol officers.
Althohgh the National Police Agency have defined residential survey and patrol as the main tasks of the patrol police, patrolmen spend most of their time for conducting field interrogotion and handling incidents at police-boxes, while "residential survey specialists" have taken over a significant part of the residential survey from patrolmen. Patrolmen conduct field interrogation eagerly to catch criminal suspects, as an arrest through field interrogation has been given a highest achievement point. In contrast, patrol officers do not perform ordermaintenance function well. Order-maintenance activities are those which have not been considered seriously under the achievement evaluation system.
The strong emphasis on law enforcement function is a characteristic of patrol police activities in downtown Tokyo. This fits institutional conditions of the police which have emerged through the organizational changes since the late 1960's.