Ex-police official indicted over stampede under new inquest system

Ex-police official indicted over stampede under new inquest system

OSAKA, Japan - Kazuaki Sakaki (file photo), former deputy chief of the Akashi Police Station, is indicted on April 20, 2010, for allegedly failing to prevent a fatal stampede in 2001 in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, becoming the first person to be brought to trial under a new prosecution inquest system.

Ex-police officer active in stopping suicide-seekers

Ex-police officer active in stopping suicide-seekers

FUKUI, Japan - Former senior police officer Yukio Shige, carrying binoculars Oct. 30, 2009, heads a nonprofit group to prevent suicides around the scenic Tojimbo cliff on the shore of the Sea of Japan in the northern part of Fukui Prefecture.

Ex-police forensic artist passes on skills to younger generation

Ex-police forensic artist passes on skills to younger generation

Shuichi Abe, a former member of the Identification Division of the Miyagi prefectural police, recalls memories in Sendai, northeastern Japan, in June 2015 in front of composite drawings he sketched based on photographs of victims of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. He is now engaged in handing down his skills to younger police members. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Ex-police officer active in stopping suicide-seekers

Ex-police officer active in stopping suicide-seekers

FUKUI, Japan - Former senior police officer Yukio Shige, carrying binoculars Oct. 30, 2009, heads a nonprofit group to prevent suicides around the scenic Tojimbo cliff on the shore of the Sea of Japan in the northern part of Fukui Prefecture. (Kyodo)

Ex-police officer in info leak case

Ex-police officer in info leak case

TOKYO, Japan - Noriaki Nakamichi (back), a former police officer, is escorted to the Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Tokyo after his arrest on July 22, 2011. The Tokyo police arrested a serving police officer and two former officers including Nakamichi over a leak of investigative information last year on a fatal medical malpractice case to the Tokyo clinic involved. (Kyodo)

Ex-police official indicted over stampede under new inquest syst

Ex-police official indicted over stampede under new inquest syst

OSAKA, Japan - Kazuaki Sakaki (file photo), former deputy chief of the Akashi Police Station, is indicted on April 20, 2010, for allegedly failing to prevent a fatal stampede in 2001 in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, becoming the first person to be brought to trial under a new prosecution inquest system. (Kyodo)