The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Information Communications Department, which is responsible for police dispatches and the radio system in the Japanese capital, celebrated its 70th anniversary on Monday during a ceremony at the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) headquarters.
Since its founding in 1954, the department, which supports the communications infrastructure that is the core of the MPD’s operations, has played a key role in historic incidents.
During the large protests against the Japan-American Security Treaty in the 1960s and 1970s, the department repaired the broken radios of riot police officers on the ground to maintain communications. After the crash of a Japan Airlines plane in 1985, the department set up an antenna in a rugged mountainous area and deployed satellite communications vehicles to aid search efforts.
