Osaka Prefectural Police

The Osaka Prefectural Police (, Ōsaka-fu Keisatsu) is the police force of Osaka Prefecture. It is largely based on the real-life version of the organization.
==History==
===Yakuza 0===
During 1988, Goro Majima meets both Billiken and Nishitani. During a fight with Nishitani at the Cabaret Grand, Nishitani calls the police to report an alleged robbery that he was committing at the Cabaret Grand. The Osaka Prefectural Police is revealed to be highly corrupt - while Nishitani is in jail, he can do whatever he wants, and he sees jail as his personal hideout. Nishitani's jailor is shown to have been bribed for a long time by Billiken, and eventually turns on both Billiken and Nishitani as he is bribed by the Tojo Clan, killing both for money in desperation.
===Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2===
Following the death of Yukio Terada, Tsutomu Bessho, the chief of Division Four of the Osaka Prefectural Police, orders detective Kaoru Sayama to take Kazuma Kiryu into protective custody — both Bessho and Sayama do this to extend the power of the Osaka Prefectural Police towards the Kanto region and the Tojo Clan. Sayama and the police officers under her show up at Omi Alliance headquarters to take Kiryu into their custody.
Bessho is later revealed to have been transferred the Osaka Prefectural Police along with his associate, Jiro Kawara, as a result of his role in the Christmas Massacre of 1980 against the Jingweon Mafia. Sayama is revealed to have joined because of her mission to search for her past - she took up her job as an engineer in Division Four's high-tech crime unit.
The Osaka Prefectural Police HQ has powerful technology that Sayama uses to crack the disk left by Wataru Kurahashi.
===Post-2006===
Tsubasa Kurosawa masquerades as detective Kazuhiko Serizawa of the Osaka Prefectural Police. He states that, after Sayama's rise in the ranks and romance with Kiryu, a former yakuza, the Osaka Prefectural Police is not taken seriously anymore. The veracity of this claim is dubious, on account of the fact that Kurosawa was only pretending to be part of the Osaka PD.
==Relationship with the Omi Alliance==
Throughout the Yakuza series, the Osaka Prefectural Police has at many times come into contact with the Omi Alliance, both being based out of Osaka. In Yakuza 0, the police force is shown to have been heavily infiltrated by the Omi Alliance, specifically the Kijin Clan. In the 21st century, the police seemingly tolerates the Yakuza, but the police has kept them on a tight leash. Sayama, known as the "Yakuza Huntress", became known for busting multiple Yakuza bosses. Bessho is seen in Yakuza 2 interrogating Ryo Takashima at an Osaka police station, but Takashima is not arrested in the first place and is free to go.
== Notable Members ==
* Tsutomu Bessho - Sotenbori Section Chief; Organized Crime Division
* Kaoru Sayama - Detective; Organized Crime Division
* Billiken - Detective; Unknown Division
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