Culture of Jersey picked up on the neighbouring coast of the Norman mainland. One of the best known portrayals of Jersey on the small screen was the BBC's crime drama - "Bergerac", featuring John Nettles as Jim Bergerac as a policeman in "Le Bureau des Étrangers" (a fictional department, based on the real "Bureau des Étrangers", for dealing with non-Jersey residents). This was filmed mainly in Jersey, but storylines increasingly moved further afield to England and France. Jersey has two local radio stations, BBC Radio Jersey and Channel 103 The island's patron saint is Saint Helier. The established church is the Church of
Police services of the Empire of Japan Police services of the Empire of Japan The of the Empire of Japan comprised numerous police services, in many cases with overlapping jurisdictions. During the Tokugawa bakufu (1603–1867), police functions were based on a combination of appointed town magistrates of "samurai" status, who served simultaneously as chiefs of police, prosecutors and judges. The magistrates were assisted by a professional police force with "samurai" status officers, and deputized "jittemochi" commoners with powers of arrest. The citizenry was organized into "gonin-gumi" (Five-family associations), the forerunner of the "tonarigumi," whose members were collectively responsible for the actions and activities of any one of