Two police officers from the Yodogawa Police Station in Osaka were punished for covering up a traffic violation despite driving a patrol car in the wrong direction.
The data of the in-vehicle camera that recorded the violation was erased, but the audio data of the conversation such as "Akan, I will erase the image" remained on another device.
A 41-year-old male assistant police inspector and a 26-year-old male police chief, both working at the Yodogawa Police Station Regional Division, were disposed of.
According to the police, last month, the two people accidentally drove a police car on a one-way road in Yodogawa Ward, Osaka, but erased the data of the in-vehicle camera that recorded the violation to cover up the traffic violation. It means that
Another police officer who was cracking down on violations nearby was discovered when he saw a police car running in the opposite direction.
The patrol car was driven by the police chief and the lieutenant was in the passenger seat, but on another device, the voice of the lieutenant saying, ``Oh, it's a bit bad. It means that the chief constable's voice remained.
On the 20th, the police issued an admonition to the lieutenant as the head of the police department and gave the chief constable a warning to the head of the headquarters.
Both of them admitted to the cover-up, and the lieutenant said, 'My actions were stupid.'
Shuji Tabata, head of the inspection office at the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters, commented, "As a police officer, I was strictly punished for an unbecoming act. In the future, we will thoroughly educate our staff."