News Diabetic dies in police custody after suffering abuse, neglect

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You'd expect the police to be trained in coping with those who have a mental disability.

A 43-year-old diabetic, detained in a cell at a police station in Okazaki , died on 4 December after refusing to eat for three days. The detainee was not given any medication either while in custody, police said. Investigations have revealed that he was left naked and bound with his head in a toilet bowl. A senior official is among those suspected of assaulting him.

According to the source, footage from a surveillance camera in the detention cell showed a senior official at Okazaki Police Station in the city of Okazaki entering the room and kicking the 43-year-old man as he lay tied up. Multiple police staff have already come under suspicion of assaulting the detainee. The man could not use a toilet as he was tied up with "belt handcuffs" and rope while unclothed. It has become clear that a staff member flushed the toilet while the back of the man's head was in the toilet bowl. The police station is suspected of neglecting necessary medical measures, such as having a doctor examine the man, though he had diabetes and schizophrenia. It is said that police had given him medication for the mental disorder. Still, an employee in charge of detention said they had forgotten about diabetes.

Man left naked, bound, with head in toilet bowl before death in Japan police cell - The Mainichi

OKAZAKI, Aichi -- Investigations into the death of a man held at a central Japan police station have revealed he was left naked and bound with his hea

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The [victim's] father learned in a 28 November phone call from Okazaki Police Station that his son had been arrested three days earlier. He had filed a missing person report because he had been unable to contact his son for several days. It is believed that the son lost his way home and asked someone for directions, and they called the police because he looked suspicious. When a police officer arrived, the man was said to have wielded a stick at the officer.

'Treated worse than an animal': Man's death in central Japan police cell angers father - The Mainichi

NAGOYA -- The father of a 43-year-old man who recently died in a central Japan police station cell expressed anger over his son's death in an intervie

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