The Yomiuri Shimbun
Nine police officers have been disciplined for their role in giving a defendant in an assault case an opportunity to escape on two occasions after a police sergeant dropped the key to the man's handcuffs while he was being escorted by car to Fukaya Police Station in Saitama Prefecture, police said.
The Inspection Office of the Saitama prefectural police on Wednesday fined a 55-year-old assistant police inspector one-tenth of a month's wages and took disciplinary action against his superior, a 59-year-old inspector. Seven other officers, including the head of the station and the 60-year-old police sergeant who dropped the key, were given a warning.
On one of the occasions, the sergeant, who was escorting a 26-year-old Brazilian man--on trial for assault and other charges--with the assistant police inspector, dropped the key inside the police car on March 22.
(Aug. 24, 2007)
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