Mr. Severino Gana, Vice President, Crime Prevention Practitioners Association of the Philippines (CPPAP) visited ACPF Nagoya Branch and exchanged opinions with ACPF Nagoya members and related representatives 14 April 2018.

＜CPPAP＞

→ACPF overseas cooperative organization

→was established by UNAFEI alumni of the Philippines in March 1993

→inaugurated friendship agreement with ACPF Nagoya Branch in 1994

→constructed Phil-Japan Halfway House (PJHH) (first Halfway House in the Philippines) through joint cooperation of the Philippines side (CPPAP, NAPOLCOM, DOJ Bureau of Correction, Parole and Probation Administration, Makati Golden Lions Club and others) and the Japan side (Nagoya West Lions Club, ACPF Nagoya Branch, ACPF Headquarters)

→supported more than 500 inmates for their reintegration into the community until 2017

＜Mr. Severino H. Gana＞

Mr. Severino Gana is Assistant Chief State Prosecutor of the Philippines.

He participated in the 89^th UNAFEI international training course in 1991.

He visited UNAFEI as Visiting Expert for 9 times from 1997 to 2018.

Mr. Gana visited Nagoya with two members of the Makati Golden Lions Club and exchanged opinions with ACPF Nagoya members and Nagoya West Lions Club (NWLC) members. Mr. Hiroyuki Yoshida, Director, Programme Management Bureau, ACPF Headquarters, attended the meeting.

Mr. Gana expressed his gratitude to NWLC, ACPF Nagoya and ACPF Headquarters for their support of the activities of PJHH.

MGLC reported its consecutive assistance to PJHH activities (donation of daily goods and dispatching lecturers of the training programs).

They discussed a future program of CPPAP seminar for Japanese companies advancing the Philippines. (Similar seminars for Japanese companies have been held in Bangkok since 2013. TIJ (Thailand Institute of Justice) and ACPF Thailand jointly held their fifth seminar in February 2018.)

ACPF is considering its inspection visit to Phil-Japan Halfway House in March 2019. ACPF members are most welcome to join the visit program. ACPF will send the members information on the trip later.

Front row from right:

Mr. Sadao Kawase (Former Governor, NWLC)

Ms. Carolina Matsuda (Former Governor, MGLC)

Mr. Kiyotaka Tanaka (Senior Manager, Nagoya Branch)

Mr. Severino Gana (Vice President, CPPAP)

Ms. Ana Marie Pallasigui (Former Governor, MGLC),

Second row from right:

Mr. Yoshiyuki Takemura (Secretary, NWLC)

Mr. Toshimitsu Ozeki (Senior Manager, Nagoya Branch)

Mr. Takaji Yamaguchi (Secretary General, Nagoya Branch)

Mr. Yukio Funahashi (Member, Nagoya Branch)

Mr. Mamoru Tsuda (Member, Nagoya Branch)

Mr. Tetsuya Hashino (Governor, NWLC)

Mr. Akitsuyu Ogawa (Member, Nagoya Branch)

Mr. Hiroyuki Yoshida (Director, Programme Management Bureau, ACPF Headquarters)

ACPF activities (mainly Secretariat) in the 2017 fiscal year are as follows;

2017.6/12            Mr. Kotaro OHNO (former Prosecutor General) was assigned as Councillor.

2017.6/13            The Seventh Board of Directors meeting was held.

2017.6/13            Mr. Terutoshi YAMASHITA was assigned as Director of the Board of Directors and Secretary General

(successor of Mr. Kunihiro HORIUCHI).

2017.6/28            The Fourth Councillors meeting was held.

2017.7/1              Mr. Kenji MATSUDA was assigned as Director, General Affairs Bureau (successor of Mr. Akio OMORI).

2017.7/1              ACPF Secretariat News No. 1 was issued.

2017.7/3-7/4        National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) in Thailand visited UNAFEI and developed relationships

with ACPF members.

2017.8/1              ACPF Secretariat News No. 2 was issued.

2017.8/7              The new Pamphlet of the ACPF was published.

2017.9/1              ACPF Headquarters branches (so called as functional branches) meeting was held for the first of time.

2017.9/1              ACPF Secretariat News No. 3 was issued.

2017.9/10            Fuchu UNAFEI thanks giving and farewell party (including BBQ) was held.

2017.9/12            Mr. Minoru SHIKITA, former chairperson, the ACPF, passed away.

2017.9/12-9/14    The ACPF supported the Third World Congress on Probation (3WCP)  held in Tokyo.

ACPF Saitama Branch and NPO (Future of Kenya) jointly invited a volunteer probation officer to 3WCP.

2017.9/14            Crime Prevention Practitioners Association in the Philippines and the ACPF, ACPF Nagoya Branch,

conducted their MOA signing ceremony.

2017.9/17          The funeral ceremony of Mr. Minoru SHIKITA, former chairperson, the ACPF was held.

2017.9/19            The ACPF executives exchanged opinions with seven Thai Judiciary dignitaries in the occasion of their

visit to LAWASIA conference in Tokyo.

2017.10/1            UNAFEI and ACPF Secretariat were relocated from Fuchu city in Tokyo to Akishima city in Tokyo.

2017.10 /2           The ACPF International contribution calendar was published.

2017.11/28          New ACPF website started.

2017.11/30          “Memorial service for Mr. Minoru SHIKITA, former Chairperson, the ACPF was held.

2017.11/30          The ACPF Chiba Branch decided its dissemble as of 31 March 2018.

2017.12/1            The ACF published ACPF Magazine No. 60.

2017.12/4            Ms. Tomoko AKANE (former UNAFEI Director and ACPF member) was elected as Judge of the International

Criminal Court (ICC).

2017.12/25          Mr. Hiroshi MAEDA, Councillor, the ACPF (former Prosecutor General), passed away.

2018.1/5              The ACPF started its full-fledged administration on information on its website news.

2018.1/22            The ACPF published its statistical booklet “Japan, How Safe?” (2018 edition).

2018.1/26            The ACPF, the Japan Criminal Policy Association and UNAFEI jointly conducted their public lecture on criminal policy .

2018.1/26            UNAFEI alumni meeting was held.

2018.2/8              Officers in charge, Cabinet Office, visited the ACPF (audit).

2018.2/10-2/14    ACPF members visited TIJ- Thai ACPF seminar and criminal justice organizations in Thailand.

2018.2/20            MCPF and Royal Malaysia Police (Kuala Lumpur) chief superintendent delegations made courtesy visit to the ACPF.

2018.2/22            Mr. Taichi SAKAIYA, President, gave the press conference on “Japan, How Safe?”.

2018.3/1              ACPF Branch officials in charge meeting was held.

2018.3/13            The eighth meeting of the Board of Directors was held.

2018.3/15-3/17　Dr. Tran Cong Phan, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Supreme People’s Procuracy of Viet Nam,

visited ACPF Sapporo Branch.

2018.3/31            The ACPF Chiba Branch was dissolved.

Needless to say, ACPF members devoted themselves to prepare the programs prior several months for the events. They had to concurrently conduct many programs this fiscal year.

Saitama Branch with joint cooperation of Saitama Volunteer Probation Officers (VPO) Counseling Study Association every year conducts a seminar and a study meeting to extend knowledge of members.

Titles of the seminars for latest three years are as follows;

2015     “Bonds generated by Child Rearing” ～Infants rear parental love and bonds in the community～

Lecturer: Kazu MATSUI, former Chairperson, Education Board of Saitama Prefecture

(ACPF Magazine No. 57, page 28-29)

2016      “Zero, if not 100?” ～In order to develop self-esteem～

Lecturer: Shigeho OTSUKA, Principal Social Education Supervisor, Lifelong Learning and Cultural Assets Division, Municipalities Assistance Bureau, Education Department, Saitama Prefecture

(ACPF Magazine No. 59, page 33)

2017      “Activities of Pippi, Shelter for Children” ～Nestle close to Children～

 Lecturer: Hiroshi OKURA, Attorney at Law

(ACPF Magazine No. 60, page 32)

This visit was made by joint delegations of Saitama VPO Counseling Study Association and ACPF Saitama Branch.

The former visit was to Fuchu UNAFEI three years ago (refer to ACPF No. 57). This visit is to Akishima UNAFEI relocated in October 2017.

After they saw inside the renewed UNAFEI building, they got briefings of the UNAFEI activities.

Participants expressed “We are impressed very much with the wonderful facility” and asked questions about UNAFEI training programmes and their durations.

The UNAFEI Training Course for Vietnamese Prosecution was conducted from 12 to 23 March, 2018. Its theme was practical tasks on revised Criminal Procedure Code. 10 Vietnamese prosecutors participated in the course.

The ACPF supported its welcome reception and farewell reception as well as the attendance of two ACPF members (Aim Universe Co., Ltd.,) for the closing ceremony and the farewell reception.

Vietnamese participants revealed their comments by saying “It is wonderful that cooperative private companies become members of the ACPF which is to support UNAFEI.”

【Mr. Nguyen Quang Thanh, Chief Prosecutor, High People’s Procuracy in Hanoi, Delegation Leader, (second from right) and ACPF members】

Ms. Donna　Lynn Caparas, Treasurer, Crime Prevention Practitioners Association of the Philippines (CPPAP) visited ACPF Headquarters (Akishima City) 16 March, 2018.

【UNAFEI・ICD Entrance Hall. Ms. Caparas (second from right)】

The CPPAP is a renamed organization of the ACPPI (Asia Crime Prevention Philippines Incorporated), which was established in 1994 by UNAFEI alumni. (The ACPPI was sometimes mistaken as another organization which abbreviation was also ACPPI)

The CPPAP and the ACPF have cooperative relationships for more than 20 years.

＜Contributions of the CPPAP＞

→The ACPPI and ACPF Nagoya Branch inaugurated friendship agreement in 1994.

→The CPPAP has been managing for more than 20 years the Phil-Japan Halfway House (PJHH) which was constructed in 1997 through joint cooperation of the Philippine side (CPPAP, NAPOLCOM, DOJ, Correction Bureau, Parole and Probation Administration and others) and the Japan side (Nagoya West Lions Club, ACPF Nagoya Branch, ACPF Headquarters).

→The signing ceremony of the MOA on the administration of the PJHH was conducted with the attendance of 40 Philippine members in Tokyo in September, 2017.

→The CPPAP has close relationship with UNAFEI. The CPPAP accepted the visit of UNAFEI delegation (Director, Professor, Secretariat staff) to PJHH in Mutinlupa and explained the administration to them.

＜Ms. Donna Lynn Caparas＞

Ms. Caparas participated in the 112^th UNAFEI international training course in 1999. During her stay in Tokyo this March, she visited ACPF Headquarters., UNAFEI and the Ministry of Justice

She met with the former UNAFEI professor in charge of the 112^th UNAFEI course (now assistant Vice-Minister of Justice) and former UNAFEI professor (now Assistant to the Director, Rehabilitation Bureau) in the MOJ.

While her visit to UNAFEI in Akishima, she revealed her impression that New UNAFEI is big (because International Cooperation Department is also in the building.) and modernized (International Conference Halls, Wi-Fi). She also inspected the library (50,000books) and Philippine corner shelf, where she took a voluminous Handbook of the Criminal Procedure, and found on the opposite page of the cover letters “donation 30 June 1999 Ms. Caparas”! What a coincidence. She and others were surprised with joy and took pictures with the book.

She joined the welcome party hosted by Mr. Yamashita, Secretary General, ACPF and exchanged opinions on ACPF activities in the evening.