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Tokyo Paralympics: 40 policemen sent home in disgrace over booze, brawl and brothel visit
- The members of a special Yamanashi Prefectural Police security unit were in Tokyo to support local police and control traffic during the Games
- Some went out to bars in the Sumida district and got into a fight with members of the public, while others visited a brothel in the Japanese capital
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Around 40 police officers sent to provide security at the Tokyo Paralympics have been sent home for drinking, brawling with members of the public and frequenting a brothel.
The detachment from a special Yamanashi Prefectural Police security unit was in the Japanese capital to support local police at venues and to control traffic during the Games.
The unit’s internal regulations stated that the men were not permitted to drink alcohol at their accommodation in Tokyo, but a number of the officers defied that ban on Saturday, the Asahi newspaper reported.
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Despite the Covid-19 state of emergency and appeals from both the national and Tokyo metropolitan governments for people to stay at home and avoid public places, some of the officers then went out to bars in the Sumida district and became embroiled in an argument in the early hours of Sunday that developed into a fight with members of the public.
No one sustained serious injuries in the confrontation but a bystander summoned the police to intervene, at which point their identities were revealed.
Sources also told the paper that several of the officers had gone to a brothel during their stay in Tokyo. The entire unit was relieved of its duties in the capital and ordered to return to Yamanashi Prefecture on Monday.
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