A suburban Tokyo riot squad police sergeant caught while stealing a woman's panties has been arrested, police said.
Keisuke Kanbara, 27, the Metropolitan Police Department riot squad sergeant, was arrested for breaking the Picking Prevention Law.
Kanbara admits to the allegations.
"I broke into a first floor apartment and stole some women's panties," police quoted him as saying, adding that he has hinted at further thefts.
Kanbara is the second MPD police sergeant to be involved in an embarrassing scandal in recent months following a case in August where a cop shot a bar hostess and then took his own life.
Masahito Kanetaka, the head of the MPD's police affairs department, apologized.
"I deeply apologize that one of our members has done something like this at a time when we are instructing all staff not to commit wrongdoings," he said.
Police said Kanbara picked the lock on a woman's apartment in Tachikawa using a driver, then entered and stole some of her underwear. Kanbara told investigators he had dumped the undergarments and a search of the nearby area uncovered over a dozen pairs of women's underpants.
Kanbara joined the MPD in April 2002 and was posted to the riot squad in October 2005. He lives in a police dormitory with his family. As he has told investigators he has committed other thefts, police are looking around his workplace and the dormitory to uncover any possible stealing that may have taken place.
Mainichi
October 10, 2007
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