Commission of Counter Ghoul

The Commission of Counter Ghoul functioned as a federal body devoted to solving crimes tied to ghouls, its authority resting on the Ghoul Countermeasures Law. Its central offices stood in the 1st ward. Ghouls seldom used the formal name, instead branding the agency's investigators Doves, a nickname taken from the bird on the organization's seal.

Two separate classes of personnel filled its ranks. Ghoul investigators, based at the main office and posted across Tokyo's wards, carried out the hands-on pursuit and capture of suspects, and they alone were cleared to wield quinques. Bureau investigators managed paperwork and lent backup, working largely from branch offices and taking the field with firearms loaded with Q bullets.

The agency grew out of the Ghoul Countermeasures Office, a state institution founded in 1890 under Daikichi Washuu, then head of the clan. Eto Yoshimura maintained that this earlier body arose more than a hundred years before her time to confront a single one-eyed ghoul so powerful that humanity had to band together against it. First attempts leaned on firearms, which failed against ghoul physiology, until leadership under Yoshiu Washuu forged the quinque out of ghoul kagune. That new weapon drove extermination rates sharply upward and stayed the investigators' arm of choice.

Its reach extended well past the 1st ward headquarters, which housed the main office, a laboratory division, and a training center. Branch offices operated in wards including the 2nd, 11th, 13th, and 20th, and the commission ran detention centers such as Cochlea in the 23rd ward and Corniculum in the 12th, alongside academies that schooled new investigators.

Command of the commission stayed within the Washuu Clan across its history. Tsuneyoshi Washuu served as Chairman until he died, and the Bureau Director post then moved from his son Yoshitoki Washuu to Kichimura Washuu. Once Kichimura created Dragon, he resigned and left the directorship empty. The Dragon War ultimately dissolved the CCG altogether, and the Tokyo Security Committee rose in its place, a successor where ghouls and humans work side by side to guard the city against Dragon Orphans.