Pubdate: Fri, 29 Jul 2005
Source: Mainichi Daily News (Japan)
Copyright: 2005 The Mainichi Newspapers Co.
Contact:  http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3807

COP FIRED FOR HAVING SEX WITH WOMAN HELD ON DRUG CHARGES

A Tokyo police officer has been dismissed for having sex with a woman he 
was questioning in June, police officials said.

"I fell in love with the woman while I was questioning her. After chatting 
with her, I lost my ability to judge," Hiroyuki Imai was quoted as telling 
his bosses.

Imai, a former assistant inspector at the Metropolitan Police Department 
(MPD) anti-organized crime division, has been indicted on charges of 
committing violence and cruelty as a special public servant.

The woman has told police that she could not resist Imai's advances while 
the former assistant inspector claims he thought that the woman liked him.

Imai was initially arrested for participating in indecent behavior with the 
23-year-old woman in an MPD investigation room in the Asakusa district of 
Tokyo's Taito-ku on the evening of June 8 and having sex with the woman in 
an investigation room. He was subsequently hit with new charges over 
indecent behavior with her on June 14.

A 32-year-old sergeant who was questioning the woman along with the 
assistant inspector was unaware of the incidents because they occurred 
while he was away from the investigation room, according to the MPD's 
personnel division.
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