43. Radiant ukiyo-e (II)
Tokyo, Chiyoda-ku, Sakurada Gate, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters
Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward is home to Japan's central government, and the Imperial Palace of Tokyo, a former Tokugawa family castle, is located right in the middle of Chiyoda. Nagata Town, just west of Sakurada Gate, is home to the National Assembly Building and the Prime Minister's official residence. Between Nagata Town and Hibiya Park, the Ministry of Justice, the Tokyo High Court of Justice, and the Tokyo High Public Prosecutors' Office are located...... As for the headquarters of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, which often appears in many detective anime works, especially "Detective Conan", it is located in Kasumigaseki 2-chome, Chiyoda-ku, directly above Tokyo Metro Sakuradamon Station.
On the whole, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters is a modern A-shaped building with 18 floors above ground and 4 floors underground, and it is also one of the closest modern buildings to the Imperial Palace. The third floor of the building is a detention center, where hundreds of criminals are detained and released every day. The fifth and sixth floors of the building belong to the most prominent criminal department, which has nine divisions and three mobile teams (the department of the queen of the Exorcist Niangniang Yakushiji Temple), which is often featured in various crime novels and news programs, and the scientific search research institute is also affiliated with this unit......
In particular, the four classes with the prefix of "search", as well as those criminal policemen with the title of "search officer", are generally regarded as the nemesis of crime and the embodiment of justice...... Plus the master of some mysterious events......
In general, the Self-Defense Forces, which have been at ease and spent money since their establishment, especially the Ground Self-Defense Forces, which have been unable to find opponents, have been engaged in constant maneuvers with various criminals, terrorist organizations, organized crime groups, and illegal religions for many years. The Japanese policemen, who have made a lot of sacrifices and accumulated a wealth of practical combat experience, are obviously much better than the Ground Self-Defense Force in terms of professional quality and professionalism.
In the general perception of the Japanese public, the Self-Defense Forces are generally regarded as a police force that maintains public order despite its good equipment but the quality of its soldiers is hopeless. Although there are also various drawbacks, they can be called clean and efficient on the whole.
However, at a time when multiple crises in the whole society erupted in a concentrated manner. In particular, some high-ranking figures in the police circles were instructed by party bigwigs to deliberately raise thieves and self-respect in the early days of the incident, even though they were regarded as the embodiment of justice. Nor can Tokyo be saved from the vortex of turmoil.
Standing next to the window on the sixth floor of the headquarters of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, looking out at the disturbing and burning city outside, Tokyo Governor Kamijo Keikatsu extinguished the cigarette in his hand, looked up and sighed in infinite melancholy.
The gray and turbid night sky is like a huge impermeable curtain, covering the sky over the whole of Tokyo, exuding an ominous atmosphere at all times, making the governor of Tokyo, Kamijo Kaikatsu, who has long been exhausted, feel as if he is pressing a heavy stone in his heart.
It's just outside the window, just one street from the Metropolitan Police Department's headquarters. Dressed in a mess of strange costumes and dyed their hair and eyebrows in a messy huddle of colors, they swaggered through the city with sticks, kitchen knives, and hand saws, smashing street lamps and billboards, and then gathering on the side of the road to light bonfires and shout and revel. Alcoholism of alcoholism, smoking of smoking, and drug addiction can vaguely seem to distinguish the sharp moans of women being "snapped" in turns...... As for whether it was a street girl who volunteered to sell meat or a female high school student who was raped, I really don't know.
However, in the face of these imminent crimes, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department at this time was powerless to stop them at all - almost all the police officers were dispatched. There is not even a single patrol car left in the Metropolitan Police Department's headquarters, and there are only a dozen civilian personnel left in the remaining police officers...... At the moment, these thugs are still a little in awe of the Metropolitan Police Department, and they don't dare to get too close to this side. If the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled people of the Metropolitan Police Department are allowed to go out to drive people out, and then the lawless thugs will see through the truth and counterattack and make super daxiao words such as "the headquarters of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department is occupied by lawless thugs", then the international image of the Japanese police community will be completely ruined...... Today, Japan doesn't seem to have much international image. …,
Faced with this Metropolitan Police Department, which can't even defend itself, Tokyo Governor Kamijo Keikatsu can only sigh helplessly, but can only sigh helplessly.
Ever since he fell out with the young prime minister and drove back to his office building, Governor Kamijo Keikatsu (equivalent to mayor) has been trying to put order in the city, restore water and electricity supplies, lift the telecommunications blockade, and calm the rioting people...... However, the problem was that due to the Metropolitan Police Department's delay in quelling the riots, and the city's communications were intermittent, all of Kamijo's efforts eventually came to naught.
After the Fukushima nuclear crisis escalated further, the central government was powerless to deal with it, and the radiation level in Tokyo soared, the resulting panic and frenzy of evacuation in the whole city have turned all the most basic order into smithereens!
- It's not just people in Tokyo who are afraid of radiation, but they are trying to leave Tokyo in droves and flee westward. In cities to the east and north that are closer to Fukushima, hundreds of thousands of citizens are flocking to Tokyo to escape the radiation.
The civil servants of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Agency are almost helpless to watch the subway stop running, traffic collapse, and crime run rampant in this terrible state of chaos, violence, and so on.
At night, even the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku lost power, and no one came to repair it. Although there are its own emergency generators in the building, even if power is restored, there is no way to restore telephone and internet...... So, Governor Kamijo Keikatsu, who didn't want to stay in the office as a deaf and blind man, rushed to the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters building in a rage, intending to ask what the police were doing!
Then, on the way from Shinjuku to Chiyoda, Governor Katatsuto of Kamijo fully experienced the further deterioration of public order in Tokyo.
He first encountered a traffic jam on the road, and then three young men came forward and smashed glass. Taking advantage of the moment when Kamijo Jingsheng was stunned, he snatched his briefcase, and then stepped on the motorcycle and slipped away. Then, near the destination, poor Kamijo Keikatsu was dragged out of the car by another group of people and beaten violently, even the tie, tie clip and watch were snatched, and the other party also threw Molotov cocktails into the car. The official car of Kamijo Jingkatsu turned into a large orange-red fireball filled with black smoke...... During this period, the bodyguard who seemed to have a big waist and a round waist by Kamijo Jingsheng almost didn't play any role. He was hit by a dart in the knee, and Zuihou asked the driver and the governor to carry him on the road.
Then, the group of people in distress finally ran to the Metropolitan Police Department out of breath. Rushing up and down, only to find that everywhere is in a mess, the figures are sparse, and it is difficult to find even a guy to ask a question - the two giants of the Japanese police circle, the chief of police and the director of police, who were supposed to be here to command and quell the riots in Tokyo, were not there, and it is said that they personally escorted the emperor and political dignitaries to Kyoto together......
Escorting the emperor to Kyoto was accompanied by the 1st Air Support Regiment of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, a national-level rapid reaction force that uses helicopters to maneuver, and the most elite air assault force in Japan, Liliang, who had been hesitant and procrastinating when it was ordered to suppress the Fukushima terrorists. Constantly sloppy. But when it came time to "escort in", he behaved more actively than anyone else......
“…… What a bunch of irresponsible old shit! I have the courage to make trouble, but I haven't thought about how to clean it up! Are you trying to destroy Tokyo? ”
After a few consecutive pounces, Governor Kamijo Keikatsu, who heard the bad news, finally couldn't help but darken his eyes and cursed. …,
In fact. The reason why the anti-tax demonstrations that broke out yesterday morning were not monitored and controlled by the police in a timely manner, but spread into large-scale riots that spread throughout Tokyo, in addition to the long-standing accumulation of social contradictions and discontent in Japan, as well as the collusion and incitement of the major opposition parties, the police in the capital themselves deliberately connived at the release of water. It is also an important factor in this.
-- Relying on some sporadic information obtained through private channels, coupled with his own speculation and supplementation, Governor Kamijo Keikatsu has now preliminarily pieced together a part of the whole picture behind the scenes of this riot: the chief of police, the director of police, the chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, and other important members who actually rule the Japanese police force have already reached a series of secret agreements with the opposition LDP.
To put it simply, the opposition parties will deliberately instigate some chaos during the tax protests, while the police in charge of cooperating will be deliberately slow to act, not nipping the chaos in the bud, but allowing it to turn into a small flame and then start to extinguish it – a quiet protest march may not be enough to impeach a government, and a riot in the capital will be more than enough.
Of course, after the plot to topple the cabinet and the collapse of the Unity Party government, the police bigwigs who failed to maintain law and order will certainly have to take responsibility and quell the people's grievances, but at most they will resign after the fact - these old men are already old and sick and are already preparing to retire - and the LDP bigwigs will vigorously promote their children and nephews in the political and business circles as an exchange and compensation for this conspiracy.
But the problem is that in many cases, once the flames are lit, they are not so easily extinguished – these self-confident conspirators, who clearly underestimated the resentment and discontent of the Japanese people and overestimated the ability of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department to execute, not only failed to suppress the Tokyo riots at the same time as the Solidarity Party collapsed, but also allowed the riots to spread to many other cities in Japan.
Finally, this afternoon, the exhausted Metropolitan Police Department finally managed to control the situation a little, but the sudden new round of the Fukushima nuclear crisis and the huge panic caused by the landslide and tsunami suddenly shattered this fragile order in an instant......
Then, the bigwigs, who found that they had completely gotten rid of it, hurriedly pulled out their feet one by one, preparing to go to a safe place to discuss countermeasures. Only a group of hard-working grassroots personnel are left behind, and they continue to struggle in Tokyo, which has become a large fire pit......
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“…… Your Excellency, the current Metropolitan Police Department is under the charge of Chief Police Satomi Kaizuka, and she invites you to meet you on the fourth floor. ”
After running back and forth in the building for a long time, Kamijo Keikatsu's secretary finally found the current head of the Metropolitan Police Department.
However. This strange name made the governor stunned for three seconds.
“…… Satomi ...... Kaizuka Inspector General? Is that the 'Tokyo Police Flower' who has a baby face and goes to Hong Kong every weekend for vacation? I remember that she was originally a tea lady, and then she seemed to be only in charge of housekeeping! Are all the men in the Metropolitan Police Department dead? ”
He blurted out this without thinking for the first time, and then he felt inappropriate, and hurriedly stopped talking - according to the urine of the old guy who was unreliable and irresponsible afterwards, he didn't leave an idol singer or something "director for a day" to top the tank. It's time to be thankful.
Turning around and stepping into the corridors of the Metropolitan Police Department building, passing through one iron roller door after another to prevent trespassers and emergency disasters, Kamijo Keikatsu soon arrived on the fourth floor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters Building. This is the computer communication command center of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. It is also the brain center of the entire Tokyo police system, through the huge fluorescent screens on the walls, and the countless cameras that dot Tokyo. The Metropolitan Police Department can observe the movement of the entire Tokyo metropolitan area at any time, and clearly grasp the location of every patrol car and the location of each crime in the entire Tokyo area in real time. …,
However, no matter how advanced the surveillance system is, it is just as pale in the face of the "saturation attacks" of criminal syndicates and rioting people.
- At this moment, the electronic map in the center of the large screen has been completely filled with red indicating violent crime. Several police officers on duty, whose eyes were as red as rabbits, were numbly recording the bad news: car burning, shop looting and serial car accidents were no longer of concern, and the fire on the high street and the impact on government departments were also "trivial things like boogers", and the number of murders in which bodies were clearly found had increased to four figures. More than a dozen explosions occurred in the Keihin Industrial Zone in the evening and night, and it seems that they were accompanied by toxic gas leaks, but no one has been able to investigate them at all. As for the incident with the most victims, a cargo ship collided with another cruise ship in Tokyo Bay and sank, leaving hundreds of people overboard waiting for rescue. And the attitude of the Metropolitan Police Department and the Bay Coast Department. It is hoped that they will not cause trouble for everyone anymore, and either continue to float in the sea for a few days, or swim ashore by themselves......
Truth be told, in the midst of this man-made unprecedented catastrophe, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has done its best to save the day. Unfortunately, their liliang is too thin - with the increasing financial difficulties and the continuous reduction of government funds, Japan's police have to experience "painful slimming" again and again in recent years. At present, there are less than a hundred patrol cars in the entire Metropolitan Police Department. The number of personnel is also stretched, and the number of investigators in the Criminal Department alone has been reduced from more than 1,300 at its peak to just 500, and many remote police stations have been eliminated.
As a result, in the midst of the riots that spread throughout Tokyo, the current disadvantage of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's weak manpower is unmistakable - not to mention that under the deliberate delay in the operation of the police high-ups, the front-line officers of the Metropolitan Police Department also missed the best time to "extinguish the fire" yesterday morning...... After the riot becomes out of control, even if the police officers do their best, it will be difficult to recover in a short period of time.
“…… We're really at a loss for what's going on, Governor Uejo! ”
In front of the constantly flickering fluorescent screen, a petite policewoman with short hair said to Kamijo Jingsheng helplessly.
On her baby face, which could still be vaguely seen a little childish, there were thick dark circles like pandas, showing the haggard and exhaustion of the past two days.
“…… All the investigators of the Criminal Department are now scattered throughout Tokyo, cooperating with the police stations in various wards to clean up riots; Of the three mobile teams under the Metropolitan Police Department, one was trapped in Asakusa Ward, where the riots were at its worst, one was taken by the superintendent to escort the emperor's chauffeur and his entourage to the airport, and Zuihou, a terrorist who had been urgently airlifted to the north to suppress Fukushima, had not yet had time to withdraw.
In order to guard the various central government departments in Chiyoda Ward, the remaining people in the Metropolitan Police Department, including the administrators in charge of the archives and the repairmen who maintain the patrol cars, were all pulled out to make up the numbers. In the entire Metropolitan Police Department headquarters building, there are currently only about 20 civilian police officers left. ”
Speaking of which, Satomi Kaizuka, who was thrown down by the police boss who was not responsible, couldn't help but grin a miserable wry.
“…… We can't do anything other than record the cases that have already happened...... Oh, by the way, the South Korean side just sent two police dogs as assistance, although I don't know what to do other than stew them and eat meat - no one here understands Korean......"
For such a situation of hitting the street that I don't know how to describe, the expression on Kamijo Jingsheng's face can be embarrassed, except for embarrassment.
However, in the next moment, he ushered in an even more embarrassing news - Chief Cabinet Secretary Junzaburo Izumida made a phone call to Kamijo Keikatsu from the Prime Minister's Office, telling him that the Cabinet was actively seeking international assistance in order to solve the Fukushima nuclear leakage problem as soon as possible, and had contacted a professional "non-governmental organization" with a Chinese background, and that it would soon take action...... But hopefully the police and local authorities will remain calm and not make a fuss, because the noise they make can be a bit harsh......
“…… Nani? Chinese set up missile launch positions in Ikebukuro?!! When did this happen? weishenme I don't know at all?! ”
- Both Governor Kamijo Keikatsu and Satomi Kaizuka have a shocked expression of their jaws dropping...... (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )