{"id":160784,"date":"2016-04-15T13:08:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T07:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=160784"},"modified":"2016-04-15T13:08:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T07:38:03","slug":"laggala-police-station-robbery-three-policemen-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/laggala-police-station-robbery-three-policemen-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Laggala Police Station Robbery: Three Policemen Suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three policemen including a sergeant and two constables of the Laggala police station have been suspended, following the theft of several weapons from the police station\u2019s vault yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/bharatha-killing-chief-investigator-transferred\/police-man-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1226\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/police-man2-150x150.gif\" alt=\"Police-man\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/police-man2-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/police-man2-50x50.gif 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>According to police spokesman ASP Ruwan Gunasekara, the decision to interdict the policemen who were on duty at the time of the incident was taken to ensure investigations currently being carried out will not be hampered. An assistant security officer has also been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Although no arrest have been made so far, the Special Task Force (STF) is using the help of police dogs to locate the stolen firearms, which included a T-56 and 5 revolvers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Laggala Police Station Robbery: Three Policemen Suspended - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/laggala-police-station-robbery-three-policemen-suspended\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Laggala Police Station Robbery: Three Policemen Suspended - 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