Needless to say, the most famous policeman in Japan is Mr. Kankichi Ryoutsu.
He is a policeman of Community Police Affairs Section (Japanese word: Chiiki-Keisatsukan) stationed Koban of Front of Kameari Park, Katsushika-ward.
He is known for great physical strength and extensive knowledge of technology. Moreover, he is an otaku in every field.
He also contributes to improving the image of police, so the Koban which is a model of Osamu Akimoto's Comics has escaped demolition.
Policeman Ryoutsu's income is 7 million yen ($62,000) a year according to Policeman Nakagawa, his coworker. He draws a larger income than local government officials (Japanese word: Jimu riin) of the same age and most of average office workers in Japan do, because the compensation system of Japanese policemen, called Public Security Office (1) (Japanese word: Kouan-Shoku Kakko-Ichi), is established as higher wage level than that of other officials.

And other working condition of Japanese policemen is also known for its considerable warmness. For example, when a great calamity struck at Unzen-Fugendake Mountain in Nagasaki prefecture in 1991, a party of the Japan Self-Defense Force ate ship biscuits and policemen ate box lunches there according to a certain police inspector of National Police Agency.
Policeman Ryoutsu, you know, is a hero of Japanese comics. He is fictional. Policeman Natsumi Tsujimoto in "You're under Arrest" is also fictional.
But however much mischief they get into, they will arrest many criminals with their ardent sense of justice and a cool judgment in case of case.

Now my readers know what I want to say.
If the system of police in Japan functions normally, "Sakakibara-Seito" shall be arrested. The criminal must be tickled to see the ruin of public servant system in Japan.

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