KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysia police officer and three youths were arrested on Saturday in connection with the robbery of 6 Indonesian construction workers, the official Bernama news agency reported. In the early morning incident at a kongsi house in Jalan Jakar, Kemaman, the policeman, an auxiliary constable, allegedly acted as the getaway car driver. State CID chief, ACP K. Manoharan said the labourers had been asleep when they were awoken by three people, one of whom was wearing a police vest, claiming to be from the anti-narcotics branch. He said the three men ordered the workers, aged in their 20s to 40s, to hand over their passports and leave the house. “After they had exited the house, two of the men rushed into a room and seized a bag containing RM400 cash,” he said when met at his office. “They all escaped in a car driven by the constable. However, one of the victims saw its registration number and lodged a report at the Kemaman police station,” he said. Manoharan said police arrested the three youths, aged 18 to 20, at a restaurant in Cukai Utama at 6.45pm yesterday, leading to the arrest of the policeman, aged 27, who was attached to the Cukai police station. “Police also recovered some of the money from the robbery and found a rented car used by the robbers abandoned near a supermarket in Kemaman,” he said.