Masatake TERAUCHI, the Tokan (inspector general) of Korea of the day, integrated the military police with the regular police by having Motojiro AKASHI, the commander of the military police forces, double as the chief of the police administration in July, 1910, right before the annexation.
当時韓国統監であった寺内正毅は併合直前の1910年7月に明石元二郎憲兵隊司令官に警務総長を兼務させることによって憲兵と普通警察を一体化した。