勾留死、岡崎署９人書類送検　業過致死・暴行陵虐容疑など―署長ら２７人処分・愛知県警

　愛知県警岡崎署（岡崎市）の留置場で昨年１２月、勾留中の男性＝当時（４３）＝が死亡した事件で、県警は１日、業務上過失致死と特別公務員暴行陵虐などの容疑で、担当していた警務課長代理の男性警部（４６）ら９人を書類送検し、この警部を停職３カ月、署長の警視正（６０）を減給１００分の１０（３カ月）とするなど計２７人を処分したと発表した。警部と署長は同日付で辞職した。
　同県警で一度に行われた処分数としては過去最多となった。鎌田徹郎県警本部長は「不適切な処遇が継続し、尊い命が失われた。亡くなられた男性、ご遺族、県民の皆さまに深くおわび申し上げる」との談話を公表した。
　県警によると、警部は昨年１１月２８～２９日、男性を数回蹴ったり踏みつけたりしたほか、ベルト手錠と捕縄の「戒具」で両手足を拘束された男性を保護室に放置し、１２月４日に高度脱水による急性腎不全で死亡させた疑い。
　警部補（５２）や元警部補（６１）ら５人と共謀して医師の意見を聴いたとする虚偽の留置記録を作成したとして、虚偽有印公文書作成容疑でも書類送検された。
　署長は男性の勾留中、一度も留置場を巡視しておらず、決裁を副署長（５９）に任せていた。監督責任も問われ、警部に次ぐ重い処分となった。副署長や課長（５９）ら計１１人が懲戒処分、残る１６人が本部長訓戒などを受けた。（2023/12/01-22:21）

The Aichi prefectural police department on Friday sent to prosecutors papers on a chief inspector and eight other officers over the death of a 43-year-old man who was in custody at a police station in the central Japan city of Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, last year.
   Also on Friday, the Aichi police department announced punishments for a total of 27 people, including a three-month suspension for the 46-year-old chief inspector and a 10 pct pay cut for three months for a 60-year-old assistant commissioner who was head of the Okazaki police station. Both the chief inspector and the assistant commissioner resigned the same day.
   "We deeply apologize to the man, his family and the people of Aichi for causing the serious consequence of the loss of a life," Tetsuro Kamata, head of the Aichi police department, said in a statement.
   According to the police, the chief inspector allegedly kicked and stamped on the man several times on Nov. 28-29 last year and also left the man, whose hands and feet were bound, in a holding cell, resulting in his death from acute kidney failure caused by severe dehydration on Dec. 4.
   The man was arrested on Nov. 25 on suspicion of obstructing official business and taken into custody at the police station the following day. The man, who had a mental disorder, was bound and placed in the observation cell after he started screaming and behaving violently.