
Police inspector held over train molestation
The Yomiuri Shimbun
A Metropolitan Police Department police inspector was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of molesting a 22-year-old woman on a train on the Seibu Shinjuku Line.
According to the police, Takeshi Hayakawa, commander of the MPD's 8th District Traffic Mobile Unit, allegedly touched the hip of a woman sitting next to him on the train at about 11 p.m. The woman seized Hayakawa and took him to staff at Minami-Otsuka Station in Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, who then handed him over to Kawagoe Police Station.
Hayakawa, 42, of Sayama in the prefecture, denied the allegation, the police said. He reportedly left his office at 6 p.m., and was heading home after having dinner and drinks with his colleagues near JR Tachikawa Station.
From the Daily Yomiuri
Suggested motto for the police force - To serve and molest.