Rachel
07-27-2005, 08:00 PM
Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department has been left red-faced following the arrest of an assistant inspector accused of turning a remand center interrogation room into his private den of iniquity, according to Weekly Playboy (8/2).
Assistant inspector Hiroyuki Imai was arrested earlier this month for abusing his position as a police officer by allegedly having sex with a female suspect in her 20s who he was supposed to be questioning about the drug charges she faced.
MPD officials and Imai have apologized over the case.
MPD officials said Imai's immorality occurred in an interrogation room at the Kikuyabashi remand center in Tokyo on June 8.
They say Imai touch the indicted woman's breasts and performed other indecent acts on her. Imai had been left alone in the room with the woman as much as 20 times and authorities fear there may be even more to the case than has already met the eye.
"The assistant inspector was in the interrogation room in an advisory capacity, but when the police sergeant doing the questioning left for a moment, he used the chance to swoop on the woman," a reporter for a national daily tells Weekly Playboy.
Fumio Yama****a, an MPD internal affairs official, deeply apologized for Imai's actions.
"He said and did things that were totally inappropriate for a police officer," the weekly quotes Yama****a telling reporters in an early July news conference.
A former policewoman experienced in dealing with woman prisoners awaiting trial said the Imai case where a policeman was left alone with a female suspect was "something that should never have happened."
There is another important reason, the weekly opines, why the incident should not have occurred at Kikuyabashi - it is supposed to be the remand center that sets the standard for all similar types of facilities across Japan.
"There are two facilities the Metropolitan Police Department has for holding women awaiting trial -- the main MPD headquarters and Kikuyabashi. Women can also be held in custody in several police stations throughout the capital," former MPD sergeant and now journalist Akio Kuroki tells Weekly Playboy. "Kikuyabashi, in particular, has a long history and is known throughout the country as the 'national model' for women's remand centers. All officials there are female police officers. Police officers and prison officials travel from all over Japan to visit Kikuyabashi to study such things as ways to go about ensuring female suspects' rights are properly maintained." (By Ryann Connell)
July 27, 2005
Source: Mainichi Daily News
Assistant inspector Hiroyuki Imai was arrested earlier this month for abusing his position as a police officer by allegedly having sex with a female suspect in her 20s who he was supposed to be questioning about the drug charges she faced.
MPD officials and Imai have apologized over the case.
MPD officials said Imai's immorality occurred in an interrogation room at the Kikuyabashi remand center in Tokyo on June 8.
They say Imai touch the indicted woman's breasts and performed other indecent acts on her. Imai had been left alone in the room with the woman as much as 20 times and authorities fear there may be even more to the case than has already met the eye.
"The assistant inspector was in the interrogation room in an advisory capacity, but when the police sergeant doing the questioning left for a moment, he used the chance to swoop on the woman," a reporter for a national daily tells Weekly Playboy.
Fumio Yama****a, an MPD internal affairs official, deeply apologized for Imai's actions.
"He said and did things that were totally inappropriate for a police officer," the weekly quotes Yama****a telling reporters in an early July news conference.
A former policewoman experienced in dealing with woman prisoners awaiting trial said the Imai case where a policeman was left alone with a female suspect was "something that should never have happened."
There is another important reason, the weekly opines, why the incident should not have occurred at Kikuyabashi - it is supposed to be the remand center that sets the standard for all similar types of facilities across Japan.
"There are two facilities the Metropolitan Police Department has for holding women awaiting trial -- the main MPD headquarters and Kikuyabashi. Women can also be held in custody in several police stations throughout the capital," former MPD sergeant and now journalist Akio Kuroki tells Weekly Playboy. "Kikuyabashi, in particular, has a long history and is known throughout the country as the 'national model' for women's remand centers. All officials there are female police officers. Police officers and prison officials travel from all over Japan to visit Kikuyabashi to study such things as ways to go about ensuring female suspects' rights are properly maintained." (By Ryann Connell)
July 27, 2005
Source: Mainichi Daily News