"What is Mineko Yuki's current condition?"
In a conference room at Metropolitan Police Department Headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, the Superintendent General, his temples white and his silver hair meticulously groomed, sat at the head of the table and questioned his secretary.
"Beep, beep, beep-"
Several soft beeps sounded at an inappropriate moment. The Superintendent General frowned and looked over.
Besides the officers attending the meeting, several very high-tech-looking security robots occupied a corner of the conference room.
These black-and-white police robots resembled large vacuum cleaners at first glance. Over a meter and a half tall, they carried 3D cameras and recognition software that could determine whether faces within their field of view belonged to registered officers.
Upon detecting an unfamiliar face, they could identify it within a second and send a signal through an alarm.
After the Superhuman "Itachi" of Akatsuki infiltrated the building and stripped the Public Security Fifth Division's archives of every paper document, the Metropolitan Police Department reflected bitterly on the experience and decided to strengthen its defenses.
On the Expert Group's recommendation, the Metropolitan Police Department began using digital, high-tech systems to guard against Superhuman infiltration.
Because Itachi possessed a Superhuman Ability that allowed him to mentally control ordinary people, and no countermeasure was immediately available, they could only start by upgrading the Metropolitan Police Department's electronic surveillance equipment.
There were guards at every turn. In critical departments such as Public Security Section Five and the Fourth Investigation Division, the visible cameras alone numbered several times what they had before, not to mention the hidden cameras no one knew about.
In addition, these police robots, imported at great expense from Silicon Valley in the United States, were another result of the reforms.
The police robots also carried cameras, sensors, thermal imaging equipment, and odor detectors.