The Kempeitai was the official military police of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA). The organization also shared civilian secret police and gendarmerie responsibilities that specialized in clandestine and covert operation, counterinsurgency, counterintelligence, created an Imperial Japanese Army security network intelligence, human intelligence (HUMINT), interrogated suspects who might be Allied soldiers and spies or members of a resistance movement, maintained security of prisoner of war camps, military criminal investigation, provided security at important government and military locations at risk of being sabotaged within the Empire of Japan and its occupied territories, and raided to capture high-value targets.