警護態勢を検証へ　ＳＰ配置も防げず―安倍元首相銃撃・警察庁

　安倍晋三元首相が銃撃された事件を受け、警察庁は警護態勢に問題がなかったか検証する。安倍氏の演説にはスーツ姿で拳銃を携行する専従の警護官（ＳＰ）が配置されていたが、銃撃を防げなかった事態を重く見た。
　警察庁によると、今回の安倍氏の演説は奈良県警警備部の参事官をトップとするチームが警護に当たり、警視庁のＳＰも配置されていた。具体的な人数や配置について、警察庁の担当者は「今後に支障が出るので答えられない」としている。（2022/07/08-17:30）

Japan's National Police Agency will check if there were any flaws in security for former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, after he was shot while on a campaign trail Friday.
   The examination comes as the NPA views seriously the fact that security police officers with guns who were guarding Abe during the campaigning could not prevent the shooting.
   Abe, a member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was shot while delivering, near a train station in the western Japan city of Nara, a stump speech for an LDP candidate in Sunday's election for the House of Councillors, the upper chamber of the country's parliament. He was confirmed dead later on Friday.
   During the outdoor speech, Abe was guarded by a team led by a senior official of the Nara prefectural police department's security division and security police officers from Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department, according to the NPA.
   An NPA official declined to comment on the number of the security officers and their arrangement at the time, saying that disclosing the information would affect future security operations.