NAGOYA -- A 52-year-old police assistant inspector from Nishio Police Station has committed suicide in disgrace after he was questioned about stalking a woman in her 20s, Aichi Prefectural Police said Tuesday.
"He used his position to find out the woman's e-mail address, which is against regulations, and we were planning to transfer him," a spokesman for the prefectural police's internal affairs department said.
The assistant inspector, whose name has not been released, sometimes sent the woman up to 10 e-mail messages a day, begging her to become his lover.
The woman and her lawyer eventually visited the police station and demanded the assistant inspector be transferred and ordered to stay away from her.
Police said the assistant inspector had been in charge of authorizing the number of pachinko machines in use. When the young woman who works at a pachinko parlor visited the station in July, he apparently fell for her. The following month, he asked the woman to tell him her mobile phone e-mail address.
The assistant inspector sent scores of messages to her. On Oct. 5, the woman and her lawyer visited the station and complained about the assistant inspector.
Internal affairs officials twice questioned the assistant inspector and said he basically admitted to the allegations against him, saying that he thought the woman "seemed like a nice type."
The woman admitted that she had initially replied to some of the assistant inspector's e-mails, but later told investigators that she had only done so because she feared that ignoring the lawman would create problems for her employers.
The police assistant inspector was found hanged in his home on Monday last week. He did not leave a suicide note.
Mainichi
October 23, 2007
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