Representatives of the three ruling parties on Thursday requested that Chief Cabinet Secretary Mikio Aoki begin efforts in the Cabinet to reform the nation's police system.
The policy affairs chiefs of the three-way coalition handed Aoki a package of police reform items that they agreed on earlier in the day.
The reform plans, which were mapped out after reviewing the recent police scandal in Niigata Prefecture, suggest that elite police bureaucrats work at local police stations with rank-and-file officers for about five years.