Police investigator faces charges for peeping into woman's apartment

WAKKANAI, Hokkaido -- A police investigator faces charges for peeping into a woman's apartment in August while he was suspended from duty, police sources said.

Local police are set to send an investigation report to prosecutors, accusing the 31-year-old senior officer of violating the Minor Offense Law. He admitted to the allegations during questioning.

The investigator peeped into a young woman's apartment in Wakkanai through a window blind late on the night of Aug. 21, according to the sources.

The officer fled the scene in his car parked nearby after a man who was staying at the victim's apartment noticed his actions and warned him. However, police tracked him down from the license plate number of his vehicle that the man remembered.

The officer was suspended from duty on July 6 for leaking confidential investigation information on about 330 individuals onto the Internet through the file-exchange software Winny.

のぞき見：情報流出の巡査長、停職中に女性の部屋を　稚内
　私有パソコンから捜査情報をインターネット上に流出させ、停職６カ月の処分を受けた北海道警稚内署刑事課の男性巡査長（３１）が停職期間中の８月、稚内市内で女性の部屋をのぞき見していたことが分かった。道警は２８日にも巡査長を軽犯罪法違反（のぞき見）容疑で稚内区検に書類送検する。

　関係者によると、巡査長は８月２１日深夜、稚内市内のアパート１階に住む若い女性の部屋を窓のブラインドの隙間からのぞいたとされる。女性と面識はなく、「散歩中に話し声が聞こえたので近づいた」などと話し、のぞき見したことを認めているという。

　女性宅にいた男性が気付くと、巡査長は近くに止めてあった車で逃げたが、男性が車のナンバーを同署に通報した。

　巡査長は４月、ファイル交換ソフト「ウィニー」を通じ、約３３０人分の捜査情報をネット上に流出させ、７月６日付で停職処分を受けた。

Mainichi

November 28, 2007