In the case of the theft of a wooden statue of "Binzuru Venerable" placed at Zenkoji Temple in Nagano City on May 5, the statue was found about two hours after the report was made and the suspect was arrested. The decisive factor in the speedy solution was the new 2 call system, which filmed the scene at the reporting stage and sent it to the police.
Shortly after 5:8 a.m. on the 40th of this month, temple officials found a wooden statue of "Binzuru Venerable" stolen at Zenkoji Temple in Nagano City and called the police.
According to the police, the security camera at Zenkoji Temple showed a person stealing the statue, and a person with similar characteristics was found driving a car in Matsumoto City, about 60 kilometers away, and the statue was found in the car.
Shortly after 2 a.m., about two and a half hours after the call, police arrested a 11-year-old man from Kumamoto Prefecture who was driving a car on suspicion of stealing.
The decisive factor in the arrest in this case was the "34 Video Reporting System" that the Nagano Prefectural Police Headquarters began full-scale operation this month.
This system asks the person who called 110 to cooperate in taking a picture of the scene and sending it to the police, and it is a mechanism that allows you to take and send images and videos while receiving instructions over the phone by clicking on a dedicated URL sent to your smartphone.
In this case, officials at Zenkoji Temple took a picture of the thief captured on the security camera and sent it as an image, and the police urgently deployed it and shared it with police officers in various places.
As a result, investigators found a suspect with similar characteristics in Matsumoto City, leading to the safe protection of the statue.
According to the Nagano Prefectural Police Headquarters, during the trial period of about five months until February, there were 110 2 calls with images and videos, and in some cases, elderly people who had gone missing were detected early.
Masaki Takano, assistant chief of the Communication Command Division at the Prefectural Police Headquarters, said, "Since we can visually check the situation at the scene, we are now able to issue more accurate orders and respond.