Becoming a police officer in Japan
Setting: A medium-sized fictional Japanese city in late summer/early fall 1999.
Questions: What would a person have to know and study to become a police officer in Japan? How do you get into police academy, and do you go to normal college first? How do you apply? What do they test you on to get in? I basically need a guide to becoming a city cop in Japan.
I found the National Police Academy and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's webpages, but they don't tell you what you have to do to get in. (at least not on the English versions) I looked up Japanese Law Enforcement and National Police Agency (Japan) but they didn't help much. Google just brought me those webpages and a bunch of interesting but unhelpful news articles.
The situation is that you have a high school student and his older brother, who is already a cop. The student wants to become a cop too, but he's been slacking off in school so he'll need to study a lot to catch up and the brother wants to help. I want to know what the brother is going to tell the student about becoming a cop and what he's going to tutor the student on.
Questions: What would a person have to know and study to become a police officer in Japan? How do you get into police academy, and do you go to normal college first? How do you apply? What do they test you on to get in? I basically need a guide to becoming a city cop in Japan.
I found the National Police Academy and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's webpages, but they don't tell you what you have to do to get in. (at least not on the English versions) I looked up Japanese Law Enforcement and National Police Agency (Japan) but they didn't help much. Google just brought me those webpages and a bunch of interesting but unhelpful news articles.
The situation is that you have a high school student and his older brother, who is already a cop. The student wants to become a cop too, but he's been slacking off in school so he'll need to study a lot to catch up and the brother wants to help. I want to know what the brother is going to tell the student about becoming a cop and what he's going to tutor the student on.