Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department
The Metropolitan Police, with a staff of more than 40,000 police officers, and over 2,800 civilian personnel, manages 102 stations in the prefecture.
Metropolitan Police role in the news media phone hacking scandal
According to "The Guardian", the Met received documents in June 2011 from News International indicating that "News of the World" paid a total of £100,000 to between 3 and 5 as yet unidentified Met officers in 2003 while Coulson was editor. Former Met commissioner Ian Blair noted that this represents only "five junior police officers out of the Met's 52,000 staff." "The Guardian" believes evidence in the hands of the Met indicates there are more serving officers receiving "thousands of pounds in brown envelopes" from newspaper's crime reporters and that, "when the Yard tried to stop the corruption, serving officers tipped them off so they could evade detection." "The New York Times" reported that, "at best, former Scotland Yard senior officers acknowledged in interviews, the police have been lazy, incompetent and too cozy with the people they should have regarded as suspects. At worst, they said, some officers might be guilty of crimes themselves."