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The story
It’s come to light, via reporting from Bunshun Online, that a senior patrol officer and a patrol officer with the Hyogo Prefectural Police received disciplinary punishment for having sex while on duty inside a koban (neighborhood police box). The incident sparked a broader discussion on 5ch about why scandals keep recurring at Hyogo Prefectural Police. Alongside the gossip, posters raised more substantive points too — some pointed to hiring patterns, suggesting that candidates who fail to get into the Metropolitan Police Department or Osaka Prefectural Police end up flowing to neighboring prefectures, while others posted data tracking disciplinary numbers over the years.
Posted 9/21 (Mon) 17:12
Bunshun Online
“Not that prefecture again…” — a certain scandal has police insiders talking.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
Traffic units are usually male-female pairs.
Come on, seriously…
Right? When they said 'senior officer and officer' I pictured something like Ryotsu and Nakagawa (the mismatched duo from the manga/anime Kochikame).
There was that old copypasta about Ryotsu asking 'You want me to use my mouth?'…
The ones who don't make the cut end up in neighboring Kanagawa or Hyogo, so the quality drops.
Yeah, I can believe that.
Kanagawa Police in the east, Hyogo Police in the west.
Because he wanted to sleep with a 21-year-old.
'Why haven't we done it yet?' — a sergeant in his 20s was disciplined for reverse harassment against his superior.
That was Hyogo Police too, I think.
Re: #194
Honestly, the type of young cop who harasses his boss seems like exactly the type to be having sex on duty.
Do police boxes really get people that worked up?
Some people just want it more when it's forbidden — the type who'd throw the shoji wide open in The Grateful Crane (the folktale about never peeking while she weaves).
Also, while rare, Japan does have its share of genetic risk-takers.
Police work probably attracts a good number of risk-takers who get a thrill from doing dangerous things.
Isn't it just that having an on-duty room makes it convenient?
Senior officer: "My pistol's a .44 Magnum."
Officer: "Oh, stop it~"
Gunma's got a 'fine' female mayor too, and even the locals there admit it.
2012 Metro PD 70 Osaka 38 Hokkaido 37
2013 Metro PD 46 Osaka 37 Hokkaido 28
2014 Metro PD 32 Osaka 25 Aichi/Hyogo 16
2015 Metro PD 39 Hyogo 25 Osaka 21
2016 Osaka 31 Metro PD 25 Hyogo 18
2017 Fukuoka 23 Metro PD 21 Osaka 19
2018 Metro PD 34 Osaka 28 Kanagawa 16
2019 Metro PD 34 Kanagawa 19 Aichi 14
2020 Metro PD 30 Aichi 16 Osaka 15
2021 Aichi/Hyogo 12 Saitama/Chiba/Kagawa 11 Hokkaido/Metro PD/Shizuoka 09
2022 Chiba 35 Metro PD 31 Osaka 18
2023 Aichi 21 Chiba/Osaka 19 Metro PD 17
2024 Metro PD/Hyogo 20 Fukuoka 18 Aichi/Osaka 14
2025 Hyogo 50 Kanagawa 34 Metro PD 30
Saitama's not even on the list…
Guess they really enforce teamwork.
Nah, Saitama Police are actually solid, lol
Nah, it's more like:
21-year-old officer: "Hey, doing bad things like that means I'll have to arrest you~ ❤"
29-year-old senior officer: "Then I'll have to restrain you with these handcuffs."
21-year-old officer: "More, more~"
It'd be a problem if it were sex-for-bribes, or if they'd dragged a civilian into the police box, but this?
Office romances happen at every company.
Expecting police officers to live like celibate priests at this point in time — even a grade-schooler would laugh at that.
It happened while they were on duty, though.
They were way too smooth about it, so they'd clearly used that move before.
I was young and had had way too much tequila too, so lesson learned.
As long as it stays outside work and doesn't affect the job, people usually turn a blind eye.
It's usually when people start demanding favoritism for their partner or bringing personal feelings into the workplace that it becomes a real problem.
Background and Key Points of This Story
Looking at the statistics posted on 5ch, the number of disciplinary cases at Hyogo Prefectural Police has trended upward since 2021, hitting 50 in 2025 — the highest of any prefecture in the country. Police recruitment in Japan runs through separate exams administered by each prefecture, and the theory that “candidates who fail to get into the Metropolitan Police Department or Osaka Prefectural Police end up flowing to neighboring prefectures” is a hypothesis that comes up again and again on 5ch, though it has no official backing. What’s actually drawing scrutiny in this case isn’t the relationship itself, but the fact that it happened “while on duty” and “inside a koban” — a distinction the article’s headline reflects. It’s worth keeping in mind that official details behind individual disciplinary cases are limited, which leaves plenty of room for speculation to outrun the facts on a topic like this.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Express+) thread “[Senior Officer and Officer Have Sex While On Duty] “Using the Police Box as a Love Hotel…” — Why Does Hyogo Prefectural Police Keep Having So Many Scandals?“
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