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Feminine, yet tough SI leads Kandy Special Crimes Unit
A woman police officer with 21 years of experience heads Kandy’s Special Investigation Unit.
Woman Sub Inspector (WSI) Ajantha Dissanayake, had been trained at the Police Training School in Kalutara and later had served for a short period in Colombo before taking up her present post. Explaining her unit’s involvement in crime busting, she said the ancillary arm to police was the unit which she heads. They possess equipment gifted by the Swedish Government and were trained by Swedish police personnel, she said. WSI Dissanayake said her unit was capable of tasks such as the taking of finger prints, blood samples etc from the crime scene for DNA testing if needed. She said her team was better equipped now than earlier, when as in the Umma Devi case at Nawalapitiya, the blood samples were stored in bottles in courts, which resulted in problems when DNA tests were needed. “With this method, the process is more definite and the samples are the responsibility of my unit,” she said. Commenting on modern hi-tecch ways of solving crime, she said they could make use of digital photographs stored in computers for future use. Sub Inspector Ajantha Dissanayake was selected to head this special unit considering her 21 years dedicated service as the criteria. And from what was seen, she knows her job. In a yet male-dominated society, for a woman to head a unit of this calibre is indeed a credit to females of the country. |
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