Although Sawato was only using the matter as a pretext, Shiraishi really looked ready to teach everyone a lesson.
Police officers handling cases across jurisdictions was indeed considered taboo. Shiraishi did not insist on meddling in other stations' cases for no reason.
But this was Tokyo. Everyone's jurisdictions were crammed into the city, not like police stations in other prefectures, where each one was responsible for an entire city. If they had to be constrained by jurisdictions while pursuing dangerous criminals, it would be far too inefficient.
Especially Kamurocho!
When investigating crimes committed by members of Violent Organizations, were they supposed to stop chasing them the moment they ran into Kamurocho?
Was this Kamurocho, or a den of villains?
Shiraishi did not know what the others thought, but...
At the Eleventh Division, the other ten chiefs already held lower Police Ranks than Shiraishi, so they naturally stood a head shorter. As for Sawato Tetsu of Kamurocho Police Station... even when Shiraishi had only been an inspector and section chief, he had never feared him!
As for Ganto Kaiji himself, although he was theoretically Shiraishi's direct superior and outranked him by a level, Shiraishi acted as though Area Chief Superintendent Ganto would uphold justice once they "closed the door." But...
Everyone understood that when someone said, "Let's close the door and discuss this," the unspoken meaning was, "If that doesn't work, I'll throw the doors wide open!"
After all, this was Tokyo. The relationship between the Metropolitan Police Department and its stations was far closer than that between prefectural police headquarters and city police stations elsewhere.
If they truly took the matter to the Metropolitan Police Department, then in matters of "organized crime," the Organized Crime Department was Shiraishi's home turf. And as for other serious criminal cases...
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