TOKYO - A BLIND date went horribly wrong for a senior Japanese police officer who was run over by a car and robbed, police said on Wednesday.

The policeman in southern Fukuoka prefecture met the woman through a dating site for mobile phones, which many Japanese use for Internet access.

She asked him to meet her in a supermarket car park, where he was confronted by six men who were allegedly working with the woman, a police spokesman said.

The gang rammed the policeman with a car, causing injuries to his legs that took two weeks to heal, and forced him to hand over 254,000 yen (S$3,805), police said.

Gang leader Masanori Ishikawa, 39, was arrested on Monday on suspicion of the robbery, police said, but they declined to identify the officer. -- AFP