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NPA gives go-ahead for police to crack open safes found in tsunami ruins

Reports the Mainichi Daily News, Japan.

As the disaster cleanup continues across northeast Japan, police have found themselves in charge of a growing number of locked safes discovered in the debris; safes which the National Police Agency (NPA) now says can be forced open to determine their owners.

The NPA relayed its position on April 13 to the police forces in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures -- the three prefectures most severely damaged by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The directive was in response to a request from the three prefectural police forces for permission to open the safes if no clue to their owners could be found on their exteriors.

20th April 2011