Before the one year anniversary of the incident in which 10 passengers were injured when a passenger was stabbed inside a train on the Odakyu Line, it was assumed that a suspicious person on the train had a knife and acted violently. A drill was conducted to check the procedures for notifying the outside of the vehicle of abnormalities and evacuating.
More than 70 people from the Metropolitan Police Department and Odakyu Electric Railway participated in the training, and the train was actually run on the assumption that a man with a knife would go on a rampage and set fire to the train heading to Shinjuku Station. rice field.
First, after the man made a connection with the passengers, he took out a knife and sprinkled something like oil on the inside of the car and set it on fire.
During this time, the passengers pressed the button of the "emergency call device" installed in the car to inform the conductor of the emergency, and then the police officer who was waiting at the station arrested the man.
In addition, station staff guided passengers from the train to the platform and confirmed the procedures for safe evacuation.
Kazuo Mukaide, Chief of the Shinjuku Police Station Regional Section, said, "We conducted the training with a sense of tension that we would never be on the same site again. I realized the difficulty of dealing with crowded trains."
Tomokazu Hayashi, head of Shinjuku District of Odakyu Electric Railway, said, "We would like to further strengthen cooperation with the police for the safety of passengers."