Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda held a ceremony to commend contributors to the building of safe and reassuring communities at the Prime Minister's Office.

This ceremony is held to acknowledge and praise the people or groups that have made significant contributions to the promotion of building safe and reassuring communities for realizing a society resistant to crime. It is thereby aimed at promoting excellent activities at large for building safe and reassuring communities.

The Prime Minister said in his address, "Daily efforts to raise the people's awareness that they need to take action themselves to protect their own community and to deepen bonds among the people within the community become the basis for building a community with good public order where people can live safely and with peace of mind.
In terms of raising the people's awareness and deepening communal bonds, I believe initiatives for crime prevention as well as disaster prevention this time have made truly significant contributions.
I have a great expectation that these chains of valuable efforts in public space will be expanded further and contribute to realizing a society resistant to crime."