Police

The force is staffed by ordinary officers who hold no hero rank and possess no superhuman abilities. Their standard gear leans toward non-lethal tools such as riot shields and batons, though they will draw firearms like pistols when they judge that their own lives or the lives of others are at stake.

Patrol cars give them the mobility to reach crime scenes fast. Day to day, their work centers on rounding up minor criminals and lower-tier monsters rather than confronting the world's serious threats.

Before the Hero Association came into being, the police carried the burden of monster incidents themselves, working alongside the special forces. Their limits show once heroes take over that duty. When they confront the Paradise Group, they cannot detain the terrorists or mount any real resistance, and during the Neo Heroes era both Kenzan Rat and other Dragon-level threats simply overwhelm them.

Raiden underscores the same point, noting that the police and the military are already stretched thin just keeping everyday order, which leaves them unable to deal with monsters in any effective way. Their history also seeds one of their own failures: they once arrested a man for drug possession who later monsterized into Surprise-Attack Plum, and one of Chief Kuma's subordinates was killed by that very monster after describing its appearance.

Chief Kuma is the group's most prominent active figure, joined on the roster by his subordinate, who is deceased. The bulk of the story's focus falls on the Z-City Police Department during the Pork Cutlet Bowl side story.

The department brings Saitama in for questioning over his suspicious activity, and Chief Kuma interrogates him while offering a pork cutlet bowl. When Surprise-Attack Plum attacks the station and the officers cannot subdue it, Kuma moves to call McCoy of the Hero Association for help, but Saitama seizes the phone and insists neither heroes nor police act only because someone begs them to, vowing to beat the monster in return for the meal. Onlookers later see Saitama in a borrowed police uniform hauling out the defeated monster, wrongly crediting the police with the kill.