17-year-old boy referred to prosecutors for impersonating police officer

Boy now accused of impersonating prosecutors....Judges told to be aware

The boy showed the police badge to a group of four minors, both male and female, and asked for their names and addresses.

Even minors can identified that he's fake one.

Send that juvenile clown to jail..

Sign him up! Japan could definitely do with some more enthisiastic police officers.

TokyoLivingToday  08:18 am JST

Send that juvenile clown to jail.

Oh, come on, this is a slap on the wrist offence!

Send him to jail Tokyoliving?

That’s completely ridiculous. You don’t have to troll every crime story, by the way, with your two or three default comments.

TokyoLiving Today  08:18 am JST

Send that juvenile clown to jail.

I'm as much of a tough-on-crime person as anyone, but ... come on.

In the States or Canada or wherever, he'd probably get community service.

If he admires the police so much, sentence him to perform community service at a police station. Have him wash police cars or something.

"I admired how cool police officers were. I wanted to question people as if I were a real detective.”

His admiration of the police is, well, admirable.

But there are more appropriate and more constructive ways express it, than alarming innocent people with a fake badge and a line of questioning.

Next time, kid, set up an interview with your local cops as part of a school project or research paper or something. I'm sure they'd be happy to help.

mountanpear- agreed

Send him to the police cadets.

the boy told them he had impersonated a police officer three or four times.

So? What did he do?

Sleep at his desk?

Take upskirt photos of women up an escalator?

Forget his gun in a combini toilet?

Hassle people about parking their bicycles?

Shogun....dats some funny stuff !!!!

Police quoted the boy, who attends a vocational school, as saying: "I admired how cool police officers were. I wanted to question people as if I were a real detective.”

Police said the boy told them he had impersonated a police officer three or four times.

Kid should have said he didn't remember the incidents then he'd really be police material.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

I want to be a fake cop.