The army personnel assigned to the security detail of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa are to be gradually removed and replaced with police personnel, Secretary of Defence Karunasena Hettiarchchi said today. "Because army personnel can't be use for the civil security purposes without an emergency situations,"
According to the Government Information Department he said that the move is a result followed by a decision taken by the Security Council this week.
He said that not only former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s security, it has been decided to assign all VIP protection duties to the Police Department. "Therefore there will be absolutely no reduction of security only the replacing of army personnel with policemen from the VIP Protection Division," he said.
Ajith Gallage, the owner of a Bird Park in Nagarawawa, Hambantota, has been remanded over allegations of concealing illegally imported motorcycles, in a warehouse owned by him.
The final rites of veteran broadcaster, writer, and lyricist Nirmala de Alwis will be held today at Peradeniya.
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