A police sergeant in Nara, Japan was arrested for shooting an upskirt video of a young mother as she comforted her son in the back of an ambulance that was transporting the lad to a hospital following an accident.

“He had a palm-sized digital camera and he brazenly filmed from directly in front of the woman,” a prefectural police spokesman says.

Incredibly, even though caught in the act, [the policeman] wasn’t arrested for taking the filthy footage.

“Under the prefectural ordinance outlawing people from creating a public nuisance, the inside of an ambulance isn’t regarded as being ‘in public,’ nor as ‘public transport.’ He couldn’t have been arrested for that,” the police spokesman says.

The cop was arrested, however, after investigators raided his home and found videos of more than 400 women on his computer. Apparently, the lawman had a habit of secretly shooting videos of women during official police investigations. In one video, he had a woman squat down to view damage to her car as he shot up her skirt.