News Omawari couple share police box

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My wife and I share the same workspace (she's upstairs, and I work downstairs). Still, this couple takes spousal collaboration to a different level: Takanari Miyoshi and his wife Kaori, both 27-year-old sergeants, have been working side by side at the same residential police box in Okayama since March 2023. Police boxes are usually located away from the central area where officers live and work. It was rare for a couple to be allowed to work together. These days, such police boxes can be found even in other prefectures.

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The Okayama prefectural police aim to increase the number of these types of workplaces to help improve the work-life balance of police officers. At the Masatsu residential police box in Okayama, Takanari Miyoshi and his wife Kaori, both 27-year-old sergeants, share the duties of serving about 3,000 households. They support each other in their duties, such as patrolling their assigned areas. Both musicians met as members of the prefectural police band and were wed in June 2021. However, they had conflicting schedules and became concerned they would spend more time apart than together, so Takanari requested to be assigned to the same police box as his wife.

Okayama: Couple Works Together at Residential Police Box

OKAYAMA — A couple began working side by side at the same residential police box in Okayama in March this year. Since such police boxes are usually located away from the central area where officers live and work, it used to be rare for a couple to be allowed to work together. These days, such...

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