Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (, Tōkyō Keishi-chō) is a law enforcement organization featured prominently throughout the Yakuza series, based on the real-life .
== Structure ==
Very much like most western police departments, the TMPD is a highly hierarchical organization whose upper leadership is appointed by the elected politicians who form the Tokyo Public Safety Commission. These appointed commanding officers, including the TMPD's chief commander, the Superintendent General, and his second-in-command, the Deputy Commissioner, then proceed to appoint the heads of the different Divisions of the TMPD. The Division heads then appoint the Chiefs of every precinct for every district of the city of Tokyo.
The TMPD is divided into different Divisions based on the different types of crime tackled. Within the Yakuza games, the divisions whose members featured most prominently are the Divisions on Homicide, Organized Crime, Foreign Affairs and Community Safety: The Homicide Division (as the name implies) deals with the commission of murders; the Organized Crime Division deals with activity tied to criminal groups (such as the yakuza, the triads, street gangs, etc.); Foreign Affairs deals with crimes committed by foreigners within the territory of Japan or with the assistance of foreigners operating from outside the country; and Community Safety deals with patrolling the streets and dealing with street-level crime (such as muggings, public fights, sexual harassment, etc.)
In Yakuza 4, the organization Masayoshi Tanimura belongs to is referred to as the Kamurocho Police Department (KPD), possibly a sub-organization of the TMPD.
== Relationship with the Yakuza ==
In the Yakuza games, just as in real life, the TMPD has a controversial history of close ties to the yakuza; largely allowing the organized crime groups to function unhindered as long as they do not openly prey on civilians. This does not mean that the yakuza does not target civilians, but rather that they cannot be blatant about it, since doing so would go against the police's objective of maintaining public order. Police tolerance of the yakuza is also rooted in the idea that the dominance of the Japanese yakuza in organized crime prevents the influx of foreign criminal groups like the Chinese triads, which are perceived (though the accuracy of this perception is questionable) as inherently more violent. An example of this perception is represented in the events of Yakuza 2, where two members of the TMPD - Jiro Kawara and Tsutomu Bessho - allow the Dojima Family to massacre the leaders of the Jingweon Mafia due to their preference for the Japanese Tojo Clan over the Korean Jingweon.
Yakuza 4 in particular deals with this close relationship between the police and the yakuza through its main antagonist, Seishiro Munakata, the Deputy Commissioner of the TMPD. Munakata plots to take control of the Tojo Clan through a puppet leader in order to give the police direct control over organized crime; not to put a stop to it, but rather to ensure that it's only committed in ways which do not harm the TMPD's goal of maintaining the perception that Tokyo is an orderly, safe city.
==Involvement==
===1980s===
The most notable action of the TMPD during the 1980s was in the 1980 Christmas Massacre, when detective Jiro Kawara allowed the Dojima Family to attack the Jingweon Mafia. Kawara had obtained a reputation for violence along with his associate, Tsutomu Bessho, and the Christmas Massacre resulted in their transferral to the Osaka Prefectural Police. Although Bessho stayed in Osaka, Kawara moved back to Tokyo following the death of his lover Suyeon Jung to exact revenge on Jingweon members by killing them indiscriminately and seemingly without justification. He also did this to erase his daughter's connections to the Jingweon mafia. 
On 1 April 1985, after the killing of 18 members of the Ueno Seiwa Clan, Taiga Saejima turns himself in to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department in Kamurocho. The police suspect the act as being involved in a gang war between the Tojo Clan and the Ueno Seiwa, but Saejima stays silent during the investigation and a connection cannot be established. The police end up covering up the crime due to the corruption of Seishiro Munakata, and allow the death of Taigi Tanimura following the hit to be marked as an accident.
In 1988, following the death of Taichi Kurihara in the Empty Lot, the TMPD steps in and launches an investigation. They exclusively investigate Kazuma Kiryu, as the murder committed by the true killer was performed in an amateurish fashion. 
Officer Kikuchi shows up in Yakuza 0, as a police officer who thinks he cannot do anything more than checking peoples' belongings. He befriends Kiryu.
===1990s===
Following the death of Sohei Dojima, Kiryu was arrested by the TMPD and thrown in prison for a 10-year prison sentence. Involved in his case is detective Makoto Date.
===2005===
Some time before 2005, the Florist of Sai is found out by Date to be selling information illegally. The Florist moves to Purgatory.
Kiryu is released from prison in 2005. He teams up with Date to find out about the missing 10 billion yen of the Tojo Clan. Following Kiryu's fight with Lau Ka Long of the Snake Flower Triad in Yokohama, he is taken by the TMPD into jail for the kidnapping of Haruka Sawamura. However, he is soon secretly released by Date. The 10 billion yen is eventually revealed to have been taken by Kyohei Jingu and the higher-ups at the TMPD such as Seishiro Munakata (who had, for years, been complicit in this and had laundered money) to fund the building of Okinawa Penitentiary No. 2 into a "utopia" that would lead to police control of the Yakuza and all crime. When the 10 billion yen is eventually dispersed throughout the whole city and Jingu dies, the plan fails.
===2006===
Sometime in 2005 or 2006, the Florist starts working for the police again, moving up to the 50th floor of the Millennium Tower and wearing a police uniform.
Following the explosion of the top floor of the Millennium Tower by the Jingweon Mafia, the police close the tower temporarily. The TMPD launch an investigation with Sudo, Kurahashi and Date involved, trying to connect the dots between the Omi Alliance and the Jingweon Mafia. Date is framed by the Jingweon Mafia for shooting the doppelgänger of Kazuki due to an unfortunate camera angle, and becomes a wanted man.
Eventually, it is revealed that Kurahashi is a member of the Jingweon Mafia and has been hindering the investigation, having had the Jingweon Mafia infiltrate both the Florist's group and the TMPD. He takes Date and multiple other people hostage, and kills Kawara before he dies himself.
Due to the inactivity of the TMPD in 2006 and Kurahashi's involvement with the Jingweon Mafia, the department is disgraced and public opinion of it falls. People involved, such as Sudo, are promoted as a result.
===2010===
The TMPD is referred to in Yakuza 4 as Kamuro PD. Following the killing of Masaru Ihara, the TMPD take in Shun Akiyama for questioning. Upon deeming him innocent, the police under Junji Sugiuchi "protect" Akiyama from the Ueno Seiwa Clan. The police end up chasing Akiyama after he makes some brash decisions while pursuing the truth regarding Ihara's murder.
Later on, following the breaking out of Taiga Saejima from prison, the police heavily increase their presence in Kamurocho to try and find him. Saejima's sister, in trying to get her brother out of prison, colludes with Isao Katsuragi in killing Shibata's men who remember the truth about Saejima's alleged killing of 18 people in 1985. However, young detective Masayoshi Tanimura gets on the case, drawing out the fact that Katsuragi relied on heavy police corruption within the upper ranks to cover up the truth - that Katsuragi actually killed the people. Tanimura draws out the traitor within the police - Sugiuchi, who is revealed to be an Ueno Seiwa man. Junichi Sudo, who had previously assisted Date and Kiryu, attempts to arrest Sugiuchi, but cannot do so because of gun laws.
=== 2018 ===
== Notable Members ==
==== High-Command ====
* Juro Horinouchi - Commissioner (Formerly; 2000's-2019)
* Seishiro Munakata - Deputy Commissioner (Formerly; After 1985-2010)
==== Homicide ====
* Makoto Date - Detective (Early 1990s, 2010-Present)
* Junji Sugiuchi - Detective (Formerly; Early 1980s-2010)
* Taigi Tanimura - Detective (Formerly; Unknown-1985)
* Saki - Detective (Formerly; 1980s)
* Jiro Honjo - Detective (Formerly; 2000s-2016)
==== Organized Crime ====
* Junichi Sudo - Kamurocho Section Chief (2005-Present)
* The Florist of Sai - Kamurocho Section Chief (Formerly; Unknown-2000)
* Tadashi Tsurumi - Division Chief (Formerly; Unknown-2012)
* Jun Saeki - Detective (Formerly; Unknown-2012)
* Makoto Date - Detective (Formerly; 1995-2005)
* Jiro Kawara - Detective (Formerly; Late 1990s-2006)
* Hiroaki Arai - Detective (Formerly; c. 2005-2010)
* Kazuya Ayabe - Detective (Unknown-Present)
* Mitsuru Kuroiwa - Detective (Formerly; 2000s-2018)
* Sakuraba - Detective (Unknown-Present)
* Masataka Ebina - Detective
==== Foreign Affairs ====
* Wataru Kurahashi - Kamurocho Section Chief (Formerly; 1990s-2006)
* Jiro Kawara - Detective (Formerly; 1980s-2006)
* Yusuke Kaga - Detective (Unknown-1984)
==== Community Safety ====
* Satoshi Hisai - Kamurocho Section Chief (Formerly; Unknown-2010)
* Masayoshi Tanimura - Detective (Early 2000's-Present)
* Kikuchi - Patrol Officer (1980's-Unknown)
* Akihiro Ehara - Senior Patrol Officer (Unknown-2021)
==== Youth Division ====
* Shozo Takenaka - Detective (Unknown-2010)
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== Gallery ==
TMPD-HQ.png|The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's headquarters, as seen in Yakuza 4.
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