Tokyo Detective

Chapter 486 The Special Response Bureau is full of talented people
An hour later, Naoki Hanyu's final words brought the meeting to a close.

"Our Special Operations Bureau is on the front line. We solve major cases that other colleagues can't, and we arrest people that other colleagues dare not mess with. If we encounter particularly serious cases, we can directly contact the National Public Safety Commission and the Cabinet. This is a power granted to our bureau by the Cabinet and the National Public Safety Commission. Please be extremely vigilant when carrying out your missions."

After saying this, Naoki Hanyu looked at his superiors, whose smiles were a little stiff.

"Sirs, do you have anything to add?"

"No, you can go ahead and do your work."

"Yes."

After the meeting ended, Naoki Hanyu summoned the senior members of the Special Response Bureau again to the conference room on the 8th floor of the bureau. He was not very familiar with most of them, and it would take some time to truly take complete control of the Special Response Bureau.

Besides him being the director, he also had several direct subordinates within the bureau. The absence of a deputy director to counterbalance the director allowed him even more freedom.

Three special counselors from the Special Response Bureau.

The First Counselor is a seasoned veteran of the National Police Agency, 53-year-old Taichi Uchida, who holds the rank of Superintendent General. Naoki Hanyu strongly suspects that the man was planted in the agency by the agency's established power structure.

Second Counselor: A candidate provided by a high-ranking cabinet member, formerly a section chief in the Life Bureau, now a high-ranking police officer with the rank of Superintendent General, 45 years old, named Toshio Shida.

Only the third councilor, Miwako Sato, was one of Naoki Hanyu's own people.

As for the other party's willingness to give up the position of Third Counselor in the Criminal Investigation Department to come along, it is of course because the promotion speed of the Third Counselor is faster. At most, he can be promoted after 3 years without making any mistakes. After all, the standard position for this position is Superintendent General, which is also a quota that Hanyu Naoki negotiated desperately.

In addition, there are 3 assistants to the chief, which are essentially the same as assistants, but with the rank of superintendent.

The director also has a Publicity Department directly under him, which has a chief and deputy publicity officers who are specifically responsible for representing the Special Response Bureau in dealing with the news media, controlling media opinion, and acting as a spokesperson.

The chief public relations officer and head is a 60-year-old female police officer named Nakajima Emi. She is a former professional police officer who has already become a superintendent. She was introduced to her by Jingu Mitsuha and is considered one of her own.

The deputy public relations officer was Miyuki Kobayakawa, whom Naoki Hanyu deliberately placed in the public relations department so that she could succeed Nakajima Emi after she retired two years later.

However, although Miyuki Kobayakawa was specially promoted to police inspector a few days ago, her gender, age, and education are not convincing. Although the others cannot object, it will be difficult for her to get along well.

Next are the three main departments within the bureau, without a department head.

The first department, the Major Cases Investigation Department, is headed by a Superintendent General.

The First Investigation Division (91 people): is responsible for serious homicide cases and has the power to supervise major criminal cases that occur in the country, such as serial murders, major bombings, etc. If they find that the local police are not performing their duties well, they can also take over the case.

This power was seen as excessive by those within the police force, and many local police headquarters voiced their opposition. However, this was a political deal that Naoki Hanyu made with the cabinet at the cost of his life, and ultimately no bill was passed.

If the authorities want to reclaim it, it will not only require approval from the National Public Safety Commission, but also a vote in the National Assembly.

As a core department within the bureau, Naoki Hanyu placed Ryosuke Shirai, who had just been promoted to superintendent, into the department as the head of the first section, with 27 people under his command. Mai Fujiwara and Yamato Yamada were also placed in the department.

The Second Investigation Division (85 people): This division is responsible for handling organized crime, such as large-scale drug and arms smuggling, and even serious gangster cases. In this respect, its functions overlap somewhat with those of the Criminal Investigation Bureau, and its factual priority is even higher than that of the Criminal Investigation Bureau.

After all, the Criminal Investigation Bureau generally cannot interfere with local investigations, and local authorities have the right to refuse. However, when the Special Investigation Bureau intervenes, local authorities have no chance to refuse, unless the Public Safety Commission issues a ban.

In the second section, he placed the former head of the Third Investigation Section of the Criminal Investigation Department into the First Section as the head of the First Section. Ryota Takahashi, 51 years old this year, is a police inspector who voluntarily transferred over.

There's also Shiratori Ten'ei's son, Shiratori Heiji, who will be promoted to the position in a while.

Investigation Section 3 (43 people): Also known as the Special Homicide Division, this is the first department established in the Japanese police system. Because the cases handled by Investigation Section 3 are not ordinary cases, but involve supernatural things such as the dirty things and bio-monsters.

When Naoki Hanyu first saw this department, he was a little confused. He remembered that his proposal did not include Section 3. It seemed that the decision could only be made by the higher-ups. The black stake case back then was something that those big shots could not ignore. After all, this was how the man-eating fungus was discovered.

With no one available to fill the Third Investigation Division with Naoki Hanyu, the situation became even more dangerous as they faced a jumble of complicated cases.

The second department is the Intelligence Strategy Analysis Department.

Intelligence Control Division (51 people): Normally authorized to monitor certain communications, they can request full monitoring of area communications in case of a case. As a crucial intelligence network, Naoki Hanyu placed Seiko Akimoto's best friend within it.

Momoe Momoki, the same age as Seiko, often held women's parties. She used to work as a technician in the International Crime Division of the Criminal Investigation Department. If she hadn't sided with Naoki Hanyu, she wouldn't have been able to get promoted to police inspector based on her gender and age.

Data Annihilation Class (15 people): Specializes in hacking attacks and defenses, electronic evidence tampering and other network techniques.

The third department, the Special Response Department, has a minister.

This is because this is one of the few heavily armed units in Japan, with weaponry surpassing even the special forces of the Security Service. Why? Because Naoki Hanyu suggested equipping the mobile response unit with exoskeleton armor—something even the Defense Forces don't have. Unlike powered or semi-powered armor, which can be bought on the black market if you have the money, this thing is incredibly expensive. Spending tens or hundreds of millions only adds a few hundred kilograms of strength, but thankfully, its defensive capabilities should be able to withstand ordinary bullets.

The mobile division has two teams: Special Response Mobile Team 1 (42 people) and Special Response Mobile Team 2 (42 people). Except for armor, both teams are equipped with light armored vehicles, just like the special forces.

Special Weapons Section (9 people): A department dedicated to developing weapons that are advantageous to the Special Operations Bureau for its missions.

Speaking of which, the head of the Special Mobility Response Department is an old acquaintance, the former captain of the Special Assault Team 1, and a former police academy instructor, Masato Kimura, with whom he had cooperated several times.

Thinking about it, it makes sense. There are only a few candidates who can command such a violent force, and the captain of the special attack unit stationed in the Tokyo area is a very suitable candidate.

In addition to the aforementioned departments, there is also a local working division with 150 people dispatched to various localities as local liaisons and intelligence agents. This is to prevent any hidden activities from occurring in the localities, such as helping to conceal the whereabouts of the YMCA, and to assist the intelligence strategy analysis department.

For counties with large populations, a branch office is set up in each county; for counties with small populations, the branch office is combined with other counties.

When Naoki Hanyu carefully reviewed the detailed data of the Special Operations Bureau, he was also shocked. Although the number of personnel was not large, their authority was enormous. Even he, the instigator, put himself in the shoes of a high-ranking local police officer and thought that he would definitely try to bring down and disband the Special Operations Bureau. Who would want a "superior" who interferes with their work?

Even without putting himself in their shoes, he believed that if they couldn't achieve results in the short term, they would be relentlessly criticized by people both inside and outside the industry, and there was even a possibility that they would be forced to disband.

Naoki Hanyu carefully examined the dozen or so people in front of him. None of the candidates for section chief were his men. After all, the superintendent had very few subordinates, so he asked the three bigwigs of the Metropolitan Police Department to introduce some people.

One-third were from the Metropolitan Police Department, barely qualifying as half of Naoki Hanyu; one-third were people placed there by the ruling party—this was agreed upon in the deal; and one-third were original members of the National Police Agency.

Naoki Hanyu suddenly looked at the head of the Third Investigation Division because the other's file was strange.

"Section Chief Kazama, the files say you know how to handle dirty things, and that you also know a lot about explosives?"

The man, named Kazama Kohei, was around 50 years old and looked very honest.

“I used to be in the explosives disposal unit. Over the years, I have been responsible for handling several strange incidents. There was once a deep pit in a certain place from which screams were heard. People who heard the sound would inexplicably catch a cold and fever. My task at the time was to lead the explosives disposal unit to blow up the pit. Since then, no strange incidents have occurred.”

Just blow it up and be done with it. That makes perfect sense.

Naoki Hanyu was speechless. If someone with only a few demolition experiences could be appointed as the head of the Special Homicide Division, one can imagine the quality of the members inside.

"Chief Kazama, have you ever seen anything unclean? Has anyone in the section seen or dealt with it?"

"I've seen it. Once, just before a building was about to be blown up, I saw a dark shadow looking at me through a window. It was really scary. As for the others, I don't know. But there are quite a few people in the department who are former monks or Taoist priests who became police officers. The higher-ups transferred all of them to our department."

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Is this a garbage disposal station? I don't even know if it's capable of handling anything.

Naoki Hanyu suddenly stopped flipping through the files because he saw a "familiar face" in the Special Homicide Division.

Onizuka Eikichi, isn't that the ace traffic cop who chased him on his police motorcycle three years ago? How come he's been transferred here as a police inspector to serve as a regular staff member?

The records show that he had smashed a prisoner's car with a sledgehammer some time ago, which led to his punishment and subsequent arrival.

The introductions were quickly completed, and Naoki Hanyu never expected that his first case would be from the Special Murder Division, requiring him to travel to Saitama Prefecture.

Despite the "special homicide" label on Section 3, even if no one dies, if the local police department deems it to be some kind of random crime, they can report it even without evidence.

So, an afternoon passed, and Kazama Kohei returned looking exhausted.

"Chief, this case is actually a case of someone pretending to be a ghost to harm people. Where in the world are there so many supernatural things? 99.999% of them are either man-made or misunderstandings."

Naoki Hanyu nodded.

"The Special Task Force is newly established and doesn't have many cases to handle. You can go and rest first."

"Yes."

Naoki Hanyu already anticipated that Section 3 would be extremely busy in the future, perhaps the busiest department in the entire Special Response Bureau.

"Never mind, it's not like I'm the one who's busy anyway."

Seeing that it was getting dark, Naoki Hanyu decided to retrieve some small items. He had been a bit busy these past few days, so he hadn't gone to get the semi-powered armor he had hidden away.

(End of this chapter)