A government panel on police reforms recommended Thursday that police make greater efforts on information disclosure and require officers to issue written responses to complaints as measures to regain the public's trust in the nation's scandal-tainted force.
The Council on the Reform of Police Systems submitted its recommendation report to Mamoru Nishida, chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, based on the concept that police should make themselves more "visible to the citizens."
The council, chaired by Nippon Television Network Corp. President Seiichiro Ujiie, met 11 times between March 23 and Thursday and held two regional public hearings on police reform in light of the recent police scandals.