Fake police officer targets possibly the worst person, phone transcript isn’t so great either.
In this article, we’ve got two things to talk about. Both of them are pretty dumb, but we’ll start with the one that’s illegal.
On March 16, the Iwate Prefectural Police released an audio recording of a conversation that took place after a man answered a call on his phone while in his workplace. It was from a number he didn’t know, but the caller quickly identified himself by saying “I am contacting you because I received a request for cooperation in an investigation by the Kochi Prefectural Police.”
It’s a long way, roughly halfway across the country, from Iwate to Kochi, but the caller explained that this was serious business. “There is a possibility that you have been involved in crime, and that you may have committed a crime, so we, the police, are moving forward with investigations from both of those perspectives.”
“I see” said the man who’d received the call, displaying more calmness than you’d expect from the average person faced with such news.
“Ayaka Nishino,” the caller continued. “Do you have some sort of relationship with that person?”
After a short pause, the man in Iwate, once again speaking with an impressively cool and collected tone of voice answered “I will come in for questioning. That name sounds familiar, so I’ll come to Kochi right now.”
▼ A Japanese news report featuring an audio recording of the phone call
It should be pointed out that in addition to Kochi being very far from Iwate, it’s also one of the trickier parts of Japan to get to. Located on the southwest corner of the island of Shikoku, it’s not anywhere close to the high-speed Shinkansen rail network. Even if you were to start in Morioka, Iwate’s largest city, which does have a Shinkansen stop and would allow you to take the bullet train for the first part of the journey, you’re still looking at a 9-hour train trip, with multiple transfers along the way.
