[/floatl]Mainichi: Kyoto to appoint first female police superintendent
Kyoto Prefectural Police announced on Wednesday it will appoint its first female superintendent. Masako Koyama, 52, will become head of the prefectural police's high-tech criminal prevention division from Friday. The post has a superintendent ranking. It is the first time that a female police officer will assume the post of superintendent, as well as the head of the high-tech crime division, at the Kyoto Prefectural Police. "I don't have much knowledge about high-tech crime investigations, but I will do my best in a cheerful manner," said Koyama. The high-tech criminal prevention division recently played a major role in arresting the developer of the file-sharing software program Winny, as well as in the nation's first arrest of a writer of a computer virus. Koyama, who currently serves as assistant chief of the living environment section, entered the prefectural police force in 1978. She became the nation's first head of a police box when she became the head of the Nanajo-Horikawa police box under Nanajo Police Station in 1993. In 1998, she became the prefectural police's first female inspector.
