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A 25-year-old police officer has been arrested on suspicion of disturbing the public peace after he allegedly groped a woman on a train in Tokyo, police said Tuesday.
According to police, the incident occurred at around 9 p.m. Sunday on a train on the Odakyu Line between Tsurukawa and Shin-Yurigaoka stations. Sankei Shimbun reported that the officer, Kai Hayato, who lives in Hachioji, put his hand up the dress of a 29-year-old woman seated next to him.
The woman yelled at Hayato who was apprehended by station staff at Shin-Yurigaoka Station. Police quoted Hayato as saying he can’t remember the incident because he was drunk at the time.
© Japan Today
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kurisupisu
Drunk and disorderly in a public place?
Isn’t officer Hayato meant to apprehend people like this?
GrungeHamster
It's not alcohol's bad, it's your bad.
oldman_13
Another groping incident on a train. Color me 'shocked.'
since1981
What wasn't he arrested for suspicion of sexual assault?
girl_in_tokyo
How can women trust that the police will treat sexual assault seriously, when the police are so often being arrested for sexual assault?
nedotjp
The police are using this now too? So going to be using this every day.
100 CPM
They call it " disturbing the public peace" ? for groping? amazing.
"he can’t remember the incident because he was drunk at the time....covert denial & selective amnesia
Perhaps the train cameras can refresh his memory... totally mind-boggling
JenniSchiebel
No excuse.
Btang
Peace officer disturbing the public peace....defrock immediately
bobfor2
he should lose his job
Aly Rustom
he was trying to get a piece...
wow. original.
Zack
Him being a "police officer", He is well aware that those magic words can help him avoid justice and being charged criminal offence, sexual assault
sensei258
Wow, it has been a while since we've heard the I was drunk and don't remember excuse
shogun36
Again, a mug shot and a sex offenders list would do wonders here.
pudus
"Again, a mug shot and a sex offenders list would do wonders here."
They'll never figure that one out. Saving face is the order of the day for them.
Viktor Cernatinskij
Seems, Japan has one of the most pervert police in world...
Jonathan Prin
Soon, without able police officers, gropers will have free hands.
Talking to ladies is best start, not opposite way round !
kyushubill
Surprized he didn't use the old: I was searching her for weapons or drugs.
lostrune2
Thought he knows how to pat
juminRhee
I'm sure the officer couldve paid for some companionship.