A 42-year-old police officer from the Kanagawa prefectural police department has been arrested for filming up a woman’s skirt.

According to police, the incident occurred just past 8 p.m. on Sunday at Ebina Station on the Odakyu Line, Fuji TV reported. The suspect, identified as Tomoya Kitahara, a sergeant at Aoba police station, was caught filming under the skirt of a 23-year-old woman while riding the escalator at the station.

Kitahara was using a small camera hidden in his bag to take upskirt images of his unsuspecting victim. However, another police officer on patrol at the station caught Kitahara in the act.

Police said Kitahara has admitted to the charge.

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