Along with Shinsengumi (a group who guarded Kyoto during the end of Tokugawa Shogunate), Mimawarigumi specialized in clamping down on those forces which opposed the bakufu, and not offenders.
見廻組は新選組と共に一般犯罪者ではなく、反幕府勢力の取り締まりを専門に行った。