Yoriki (police sergeants) and doshin (police constables) were subordinates of the bugyo officer, but were retainers of the shogun family and worked at a bugyo-sho office hereditarily.
役職上与力や同心は部下にあたるが、これらはあくまで将軍家の家臣であり、世襲制で奉行所に勤めていた。