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The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has fired a 29-year-old police sergeant for snatching the bag of a woman as she walked along a street in Tokyo.
Police said the officer, who worked in the Human Resources Department, has admitted to the charge and said he was in debt from playing at pachinko parlors.
According to police, the unnamed suspect approached the woman from behind in Tokyo’s Fuchu City on the night of Feb 4. He snatched her bag containing about 40,000 yen in cash.
In March, he was arrested for theft; however, criminal charges were later dropped by the prosecutors. His disciplinary dismissal was announced on Tuesday.
© Japan Today
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Nippori Nick
Why dropped?
sensei258
They had to drop the charges because he's a man in authority and there most certainly would have been a conviction which would have made them look bad
indigo
Police are the bad guy here. rotten system...
bokuda
Police in Japan is worst than the criminals.
Don't even think they're here to protect you.
Pukey2
Dropped? No wonder there's no separate police crime section on JT.
kurisupisu
So the law doesn’t apply to criminal cops?
rgcivilian1
Let go! What a system. He must have had a higher up connection and got his free get out of jail call.
Abbey
Why has he not been named ? Morever, why has the case been dropped ?
Aly Rustom
agree with indigo and bokuda
blahblah222
Tokyo cops are some of the most corrupt cops I’ve seem in the world. They are in bed with some far more sinister operations as well.
Luddite
Why were the charges dropped? Shameful.
Robert pearce
Charges were dropped cause he was a cop....
Wanna be a bully?
Like beating up and standing over people?
Want a get outta jail card?
Join the Police Force.
Disgusting behavior from police that are supposed to help you..
geronimo2006
Why were the charges dropped? Hmmm....let think guess. Money changed hands and there will no questions asked. Unfortunately for him, he won't be able to get his amakudari dream job at Pachinko.
serendipitous1
There's a weird connection between firefighters who light fires, doctors or nurses who kill patients, and police officers who commit crimes.
lostrune2
At least it wasn't her skirt this time
garypen
Did he bring the kaban back to the koban?