“Just as every cop is a criminal / And all the sinners saints”
— Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, in “Sympathy For The Devil”
It appears that some cops need a little extra income from time to time. You might even say that he had a yen for crime.
School Boys Catch Purse-Snatching Cop
Agence France-Presse
Friday, June 5, 2009
A Japanese police officer has been arrested for snatching the purse of a 75-year-old woman after he was chased and caught by two high school students, police officials said Friday.
Police sergeant Naofumi Nomura, 29, allegedly stole the woman’s purse with about 10,000 yen ($130) in cash inside on Thursday night (local time) and ran off through the streets of the western city of Okayama.
Two high school students who heard the elderly woman’s screams chased Nomura on bicycle for 250 metres before overpowering him.
“I heard a woman screaming ‘thief!’ and turned around to see a man coming our way,” one of the boys, Ryutaro Hourai,15, said.
“We chased him as hard as we could. I can’t believe that a police officer who is supposed to catch criminals was caught by high school students.”
Kimiaki Hiraoka, chief inspector with Okayama’s prefectural police, said, “It was extremely deplorable. We’d like to offer our profound apologies to the victim and other people concerned.”
Agence France-Presse. “School Boys Catch Purse-Snatching Cop.” ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). 5 Jun. 2009 <http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/05/2591145.htm>