Matsudaira, Katakuriko

松平片栗虎

Police Superintendent Matsudaira Katakuriko is a high-ranking government officer under the direct control of the Bakufu government. He is in charge of the Shinsengumi and serves as the immediate superior of Commander Kondo Isao.
He has extremely violent tendencies and is often seen wielding a pistol, or occasionally heavier weapons. He also believes that people who wear sunglasses are usually assassins, even though he himself wears them. He earned the nickname 'God of Destruction' because his method of solving problems is to blow everything up using bazookas, tanks, etc.
He believes in other abnormal things, such as the idea that righteousness makes up 80% of old men and that the police are nothing more than a group of mafia community.
He is also extremely protective of his daughter, Kuriko, recruiting the Shinsengumi to carry out a hit against his daughter's boyfriend.
He is a party person who gets lewd when he is drunk. He frequently accompanies the shogun Tokugawa Shigeshige on his outings, or rather, as Gintoki said, he tends to bring the shogun to all sorts of seedy places under the pretext of being a 'father figure' to the young shogun.
He is a womanizer who always frequents hostess/cabaret clubs and is a VIP customer at 'Snack Smile,' where Otae works.
His name and role are based on Matsudaira Katamori.