Editorial

16:43 JST, June 8, 2024

A former high-ranking officer of the Kagoshima prefectural police accused the prefectural police chief, who holds the highest position in the organization, of “covering up misconduct.” This is an extraordinary situation. The police should hurry to get to the bottom of the matter.

The prefectural police in May arrested Takashi Honda, the former head of the community safety department at the prefectural police headquarters on suspicion of leaking internal police documents to an outside third party.

During the disclosure procedure explaining the reason for his detention, held on June 5, Honda admitted to leaking the information and stated that he “could not tolerate the fact that Akiteru Nogawa, the prefectural police chief, had tried to cover up criminal acts committed by police officers.”

The community safety department head is one of the........

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