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Conan mentioned that he probably worked for the Japanese Secret Police, but
who are they exactly? Under what jurisdiction of Japanese law enforcement are
they under? Are they like MI5 or something?


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What is this 'Japanese Secret Police' Furuya Rei is in? Are they a real police division?


Furuya Rei is a member of 「黒の組織」( _kuro no soshiki_ = the black organization).
I don't know what chapter or episode you are referring to, so I cannot verify
the original Japanese for ["Japanese secret police" used
there](http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Rei_Furuya#Scarlet_Showdown_.28Manga:_894-898.2CAnime:_781-783.29),
but:

Yes, in real life there was a Japanese secret police along the same lines of
Nazi Germany's [Gestapo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo) and the Soviet
Union's [KGB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB). It likewise carried out
[human rights
abuses](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempeitai#Human_Rights_Abuses) and
[crimes against humanity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731), such as
experimentation on live prisoners of war and other individuals, and biological
warfare (see also _Japan’s Gestapo: Murder, Mayhem And Torture In Wartime
Asia_ by Mark Felton).

It was called the [_Kempeitai_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kempeitai).
There was also a navy branch called the [_Tokubetsu
Keisatsutai_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokubetsu-keibi-tai_\(Navy\)). In
addition, the [_Tokubetsu Koutou
Keisatsu_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokubetsu_K%C5%8Dt%C5%8D_Keisatsu)
conducted domestic criminal investigation of civilians suspected of being
anti-war or dangerous and counter-espionage functions, and punished perceived
offenders with
[torture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokubetsu_K%C5%8Dt%C5%8D_Keisatsu#The_Tokk.C5.8D.27s_use_of_Torture).

However, all three were abolished by the Allied Powers in 1945, so **it is not
possible that Furuya Rei was a member** , since he is only 29 years old in the
_Meitantei Conan_ series. Japan does not have a post-WWII secret service. It
is likely that what is being translated as "Japanese secret police" is either
1) the
[_Kouanchousachou_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Security_Intelligence_Agency)
a.k.a. the **Public Security Intelligence Agency** established under the
[Ministry of Justice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_ministry) in 1952,
which "is tasked with internal security and espionage against threats to
Japanese national security" and "has ties to several foreign intelligence as
security agencies, including the CIA, FBI, MI6, and Mossad, with several PSIA
agents having been invited to train with the CIA under its Intelligence
Analysis Course," or 2) one of the [types of **special
police**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Japan#Special_police)
in Japan.


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Conan mention the name of the police just before we saw Akai for the first
time after his death. Conan and Bourbon are investigating on a attempted
murder. The target was Bourbon's client. The FBI is here, because the victim
is also Jodie's friend. And Bourbon mocks the FBI, want them to leave Japan
(in the French version he said "When did you leave my Japan ?" or something
like that).

Scarlett arc, I think. And later, I think there is information that the Police
is called, in French, PSB. When I googled that that give the Tokyo
Metropolitan : [Tokyo Metropolitan Police Public Security
Bureau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Metropolitan_Police_Department_Public_Security_Bureau)


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