日本警察重組廣島中國犯逃獄經過

Recently the Mainichi News on-line reported the following:
広島刑務所（広島市中区）から中国籍の李国林容疑者（４０）＝逃走容疑で逮捕＝が脱走した事件で、広島県警は１７日、李容疑者が侵入した会社事務所の電話に中国へ二十数回の発信履歴があったことを明らかにした。空き巣に入った民家でも十数回中国に電話し、少なくとも１回は数分間の通話記録があった。中国の親族に執拗（しつよう）に連絡しようとした可能性がある。事件は１８日で発生から１週間となるが、李容疑者は取り調べに対して動機や逃走経路などを語らず、黙秘しているという。
　県警によると、１２日から１３日にかけ、同市西区の民家と会社事務所に侵入し、逃走用の衣類を盗んだり飲食したりしたとみられる。逮捕時に所持していた果物ナイフは、会社事務所から盗んだものだった。
　県警が民家と事務所の電話を調べたところ、国内の接続ポイントにかけて海外につなぐシステムを使った履歴が計約４０回確認された。李容疑者が収監されていた単独室からは、親族からとみられる手紙２通がなくなっていたが、逮捕時には手紙や連絡先を記したメモ類は所持していなかった。
　県警はまた、刑務所の北東約３００メートルにある防犯カメラが、１１日午前１０時４２分と同４３分の映像に李容疑者とみられる人物を捉えていたことを明らかにした。同１０時半ごろの刑務所内の監視カメラの映像には、内塀を乗り越える李容疑者の姿があり、同４０分の点呼で李容疑者の不在が確認された。逃走はこの約１０分間に行われたとみられ、県警は詳しい足取りを調べている。
(試譯文)
In respect of the incident about the arrest of the prison escape suspect Li Guolin (40) who had escaped from the Hiroshima prison (Naka-ku, Hiroshima city), it was understood that the Hiroshima Prefecture Police on the 17th had a record of about twenty times of sending telephone message to China using the telephone in the corporate office which Li the suspect had trespassed. Telephone calls up to about ten times were also made in the private house that had been broken in, and there was at least one telephone record which lasted for several minutes. It might be an attempt to contact the Chinese relatives obstinately. Although by the 18th, this incident would be one week one since its happening, it was said that Li the suspect was telling neither the motive nor the escape route; and he was keeping silent to the investigation.
According to Prefecture Police, from the 12th to the 13th, he trespassed upon a private house and a corporate office at the west district of the same city, and it was concluded that he ate and drank, and stole clothing for the escape. The fruit knife he possessed at the time of arrest was stolen from the corporate office.
When Prefecture Police investigated the telephone of that private house and the office, they checked the using history of the system that connected with overseas by way of a domestic connection point, and confirmed a total of about 40 times of usage. From the independent room where suspect Li was imprisoned, although two letters seen to have been sent from relatives were gone, at the time of his arrest, he was in possession of no letter nor memos which recorded the contact address.
It was understood from the Prefecture Police that prison security camera which was about 300 meters northeast of the prison had, on the 11th at 10.42 am, and then at 43 minutes, captured the image of a person believed to be Li the suspect. The image that Li the suspect had overcome an inner wall was seen in the prison surveillance camera at 10:30, and Li's absence was checked by the roll call conducted at the same hour at 40 minutes. It was concluded that the escape was performed roughly within that 10 minutes, and the Prefecture Police was investigating the detailed steps.

The successful closure of this incident shows that the Japanese police is an effective force.