KANAGAWA (TR) – Kanagawa Prefectural Police have revealed that officers fraudulently issued hundreds of site visitors tickets, reviews Nippon News Network (Feb. 14).
According to investigators, members of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police’s 2nd Mobile Traffic Unit issued tickets when imposing site visitors violations equivalent to rushing, even when no clear violation truly occurred.
As a outcome, Kanagawa Prefectural Police plan to revoke greater than 2,600 site visitors violations.
In 2024, an individual who had been issued a ticket contacted the police. When police examined dashcam footage and different information, they confirmed quite a few situations of inappropriate enforcement over a interval of roughly two years from 2022.
In addition, police will refer paperwork to the prosecutor’s workplace as early as subsequent week. They may also impose disciplinary motion towards a former police sergeant and several other others on suspicion of making ready false reviews and writing false info on site visitors violation tickets.
Prefectural police additionally plan to return fines paid by violators within the revoked circumstances, which is able to quantity to greater than 30 million yen.