Former chief of police commits suicide in detention center Hiroshima Prefectural Police chief and others punished for “inappropriate patrolling”. Former Superintendent Koichi Iwamoto was charged with sexually assaulting three women he met through a dating app, and sexually assaulting another woman.
The police officer in charge patrolled the detention center of the former police superintendent at a predetermined frequency, but did not visually check the cell for more than an hour. It is said that the police officer was not seen on the patrol list, even though he had written that he had completed his patrol.