Director of the Police Department Lost after drinking Investigation materials included in personal information Kanagawa Prefectural Police October 21, 19:03

The director of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police in his fifties found that he had lost a copy of the investigation material containing personal information for 39 people brought out in violation of internal regulations after drinking alcohol with his colleagues. The document was later found in a stolen car, and the prefectural police have a policy of disposing the chief of the police.

According to the Kanagawa Prefectural Police, the 50-year-old male police officer of the Cybercrime Investigation Division said in May that the suspects of fraud cases, credit card numbers and user addresses that seem to be related to the cases, etc. A copy of the investigation material containing the personal information of the person was taken and lost in violation of internal regulations.

The chief of the police, after drinking alcohol with a colleague in Yokohama, lost the rucksack that had a copy of the investigation material, and found the rucksack the next day, but no material.

The Director of the Police Department did not report to the prefectural police that he had lost it, but in August he found that this material was found in a stolen car in Tokyo, and he was taking it out of violation of internal regulations. It means that it was discovered.

It is to explain to the investigation of the prefectural police that "I did not report because I did not remember taking a copy of the investigation material."

So far, no cases of misuse of information have been confirmed, but the Kanagawa Prefectural Police has a policy of disposing the director of the police department, and Akira Sugimoto, director of the Cybercrime Investigation Division, said, I will try to prevent it. "