More than 150 specially trained Special Task Force (STF) Personnel and Policemen have been deployed in the Southern and Western Province with effect from today, aimed at combating the underworld.
After an initial briefing by Inspector General of Police Deshabandu Tennakoon, the STF and Police personnel left for operations today.
Jeeps and motorcycles have been provided to the squads which have been divided into 20 groups.
Senior Police officials said that there would be more presence of the STF and Police personnel patrolling the streets and villages.
Police has already collected intelligence reports on underworld gangs and revelations have been made that many of the gang leaders have fled the country and operating from overseas, but their followers are involved in the murders and drug trafficking cases.
The move comes after at least 100 incidents of organised criminal activities were reported in three months claiming the lives of 56 persons.
Among them are 35 shootings where 25 persons have been killed. Most of them have been gang rivalries over drug trafficking.
IGP Tennakoon said that they are looking at 20 organised groups.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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