Robber's father's wonderful strategy to send away policemen who came to nab robbers

Robber's father's wonderful strategy to send away policemen who came to nab robbers

A posse of policemen had gone to arrest a suspect of gold jewellery and the suspect's father had thought of a wonderful strategy of creating inconvenience of carrying out their duties which incident is reported from Chilaw police.

When the police went to make a check on the house concerned, because of a complaint made to the effect  that a group of officers under liquor are creating disturbance, they had to present themselves

for three inspections to confirm that they were not under liquor, Chilaw police says. It was six officers of the crime division in Chilaw police station who had to face a situation like this.

A certain doctor's house had been burgled within Chilaw province and a stock of gold items in the house had been looted, the doctor concerned had lodged a complaint. As such, police had immediately taken action to arrest the looters by launching an investigation. On a tip-off received that one of the suspects connected to the burglary was living in Marawila area, six police officers had set off in order to take him into custody. Just then these officers were ordered by a higher officer to report immediately to their police station. These officers who stopped their operations then promptly wet before the higher officer. The police say that on a complaint received that the officers had entered a house highly intoxicated with liquor and is harassing them and therefore steps had been taken to check whether they were in an intoxicated state.

Though it was revealed that they were found free of liquor, another highranking officer had inspected them to check whether they were under liquor or not as the earlier results were not convincing. Even then the results were found to be negative and the higher officer still not satisfied with this results either, the six officers were dispatched to Chilaw hospital and thus directed for a medical examination. On that occasion too after examination it was revealed that they were free from liquor. Because of this problem of drunkenness it was not possible to take the gold-robber into custody.

What was revealed in this instance was that when action was taken to nab the burglar, in order to rescue him, his father had complained to a higher officer that a posse of policemen had arrived at his home under liquor and was creating trouble.