A 59-year-old assistant police officer of the Chiba Prefectural Police was sent a document on suspicion of violating the Local Civil Service Law and was disciplined for admonition, saying that he would start searching for an office in 30 minutes.
"It was to prevent troubles by having executives witness the search, but it was careless," he said.
The person who was punished was the assistant male police officer (59) of the Investigation Division 4, who is in charge of investigating the gangsters at the Chiba Prefectural Police.
According to the police, there is a suspicion that when he went to the gangster office in Tokyo to investigate the murder case last February, he called the office executive and said, "I will start the search 30 minutes from now." am.
When the police were pointed out by an external related organization that "there was a suspicion of information leakage" and investigated, it was found that the assistant inspector had consulted with the police inspector who was his boss at the time and then contacted the gangster executives. That is.
On the 4th, police sent documents to the assistant police officer and his boss at the time of retirement on suspicion of violating the confidentiality obligation of the Local Civil Service Law, and also disciplined the assistant police officer.
"I thought it would be better to have an executive present in the search to prevent trouble with the gangsters, but it was a careless act," the assistant police said.
Mitsuhiro Kawaguchi, Chief Inspector General of the Chiba Prefectural Police Headquarters, commented, "This is an act that damages the credibility of the police investigation and should not be done, and we would like to try to prevent recurrence."