SOYSAPURA IN COMMOTION BECAUSE OF FAKE COP

  Last night thousands of people got on to the road at Soysapura, Moratuwa and signs of a big hulabaloo was seen. The reason for this commotion was the activity of a fake policeman. It was the case of a cop who had disguised himself in police uniform and had engaged in traffic duties stopping vehicles on the road leading to Soysapura Flats, extracting bribes from drivers, pointing out various faults of theirs, and being later identified as a fake policeman!

    It was observed by the people in the area that the behaviour of this policeman was somewhat suspicious. The 'cop' had pointed out various faults such as the lights of the three-wheelers, motor cycles, vans carrying bread etc,and asking for bribes amounting to rupees 300, 500 and 1,000. Having kept an eye on all this, a three-wheel driver had informed a higher police officer whom he knew, about this cop saying that the latter looked suspicious. The higher officer in reply had said that no policeman had been deployed on duty in the said location and for him to go and request for his identity card for purposes of checking. He had then approached the cop and had done what he was told to which the cop was not pleased  and had tried to dodge the issue saying that there were higher-ups in the vicinity and if necessary to inquire from them.

     At that moment people began to surround him and question him, scaring the cop at which moment they were able to identify him as a fake cop! In a couple of minutes thousands of residents of Soysapura rocked to the place to have a look at the cop.

     Later, Mount Lavinia police arrived on the scene and had taken the cop into custody. The motor cycle which he is supposed to have used to come to the place too was taken into custody. It was revealed that he was a deserter from the STF and that he had engaged in taking bribes from hotels on earlier occasions, dressing himself as a PHI who had come on the pretense of checking cleanliness.

Further investigations on the cop are underway.