Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department indicts 52-year-old police sergeant over allegedly stealing photos of a woman’s corpse

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It has been learned that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has referred a 52-year-old police sergeant at Ayase Police Station to the prosecutor's office on suspicion of theft and violation of the Child Pornography Prohibition Act, and has dismissed him from his position for disciplinary reasons, after he stole photographs of a woman's corpse and other items for investigative materials, as well as repeatedly taking surreptitious photographs and possessing sexual images of children.

The person referred to prosecutors is a 52-year-old male police sergeant belonging to the Police Affairs Division of Ayase Police Station.

The sergeant was arrested last September on suspicion of violating Saitama Prefecture's anti-nuisance ordinance for attempting to take a surreptitious photograph of a high school girl by inserting his smartphone up her skirt at a station in Saitama City.

According to investigators, subsequent investigations revealed that while he was previously in charge of forensics at another police station, he had taken hundreds of photographs of women's bodies taken at investigation scenes, as well as printed and stolen dozens of other photographs.

Furthermore, it was discovered that he had repeatedly taken voyeuristic photos and saved sexual images of children obtained online on a hard drive at his home. The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department referred the case to the prosecutor's office on suspicion of theft, violation of the Child Pornography Prohibition Act, and voyeurism, and dismissed him from his job.

All of these were believed to be for the purpose of satisfying his own sexual desires.

So far, no photographs or other investigative materials have been leaked to the public, and they have all been deleted.