6 police stations of the Miura Peninsula cooperate in emergency dispatch training, during a staged convenience store robbery/Kanagawa

Translated from the original article at: http://news.kanaloco.jp/localnews/article/1204170013/

April 17 2012

Due to multiple convenience store robbery incidents, (police) prepare with emergency dispatch training.

On the 17th, due to multiple incidents of convenience store robbery, 6 police stations of the Miura Peninsula cooperated in emergency dispatch training. Cooperating together upon confirmation of the incident, an estimated 300 people participated, including the transit police, dispatch department, aviation groups and police stations from Yokosuka, Uraga, Taura, Suji, Hayami, and Misaki.

In the training scenario, a group of 4 men wielding knives broke into a convenience store in Oyabe, Yokosuka City, demanding money as they threatened the clerk. From the store register, 90,000 Yen ($1,115 Dollars) in cash was stolen.

The four men boarded vehicles and trains, each escaping in separate directions. Police officers in each area were deployed to inspection points, where they were lectured on which measures to take. 15 vehicles, including patrol cars and helicopters, set out in pursuit of the criminals.

Officers from Yokosuka and Uraga captured a man who escaped by vehicle on the roads of Sawara. The other three were apprehended in Natsushimacho, Hayamacho and in front of the Keikyu Line's seaside Miura Station.

Original text:

三浦半島６署合同でコンビニ強盗想定し、緊急配備訓練/神奈川

2012年4月17日

複数によるコンビニ強盗事件に備える緊急配備訓練

複数によるコンビニ強盗事件に備える緊急配備訓練が17日、三浦半島６署などの合同で行われた。横須賀、浦賀、田浦、逗子、葉山、三崎の６署や県警鉄道警察隊、通信指令課、航空隊などから計約３００人が参加し、事件発生時の連携を確認した。

横須賀市大矢部のコンビニに刃物を持った４人組の男が押し入り、「金を出せ」と店員を脅迫、レジから現金９万円を奪う強盗事件を想定した。

犯人役の男４人は乗用車と電車で４方面に別れて逃走。署員らは各地に検問所を配備するなどの措置を講じたほか、出動した約15台のパトカーと航空隊のヘリコプターが犯人を追跡した。

横須賀、浦賀の両署員が乗用車で逃走していた男を同市佐原の路上で逮捕。ほかの３人も同市夏島町、葉山町、京急線三浦海岸駅前で取り押さえた。