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Colombo, April 26 (Daily Mirror) - In light of ongoing criminal activities within prison facilities, police have initiated decisive measures to deploy undercover officers to monitor and thwart illicit operations within the prisons.
Inspector General of Police Deshabandu Tennakoon said that organized criminals are being remanded in 15 prisons across the country and 15 special police teams have been deployed as undercover officers in those prisons to identify the activities by remanded criminals.
"Despite being remanded, the organized criminals still operate their underworld activities and drug trafficking via prisons. The police under the 'Yukthiya' operation had taken special measures to curb those organized crimes by inmates," the IGP said.
The undercover officers have been given all the facilities and tasked to monitor all the remanded underworld figures and to identify the network and individuals providing facilities to criminals to continue organized crimes and drug trafficking while behind bars.
Meanwhile, the IGP said that Sri Lanka Police did not have a database of underworld gangs and criminals.
“Accordingly, in 2021, we made a database of organized criminals based on the Colombo Record Division. At present, Sri Lanka Police has a comprehensive database of organized criminals. Despite there being 607 police stations across the country, organized crimes are reported only in 62 police areas, 40 police areas in the Western Province, 20 areas in the Southern, Sethawaka and Kosgama police areas in the Sabaragamuwa Province in the country, according to the 2023 statistics,” the IGP said.
Tennakoon said that police have identified 20 organized criminal gangs operating in those 62 police areas and operations have already been launched to go after them and arrest them. “We have identified several members of those gangs who have left the country and steps are being taken to bring them back with the help of INTERPOL," he said.
Tennakoon said the Sri Lanka Police had laid a net to arrest the underworld figures operating from overseas. The CID and the Attorney General's Department are working to issue red notices on wanted criminals and also initiated legal measures with the Attorney General's Department to extradite the criminals into the country.
john frazer Friday, 26 April 2024 01:06 AM
WESTERN COUNTRIES THIS WORK UP TO 90% DO YOU EVER THINK THIS WILL WORK IN SL. UNDERCOVER COPS WILL ABUSE THE SYSTEM
Strange To Announce Such Sensitive Operations Friday, 26 April 2024 03:33 AM
Now all newly incarcerated criminals in the prisons will get “bumped” off! The older prisoners will think they are undercover government agents and will eventually get caught by these underworld criminals. Sensitive operational issues should never be discussed in public by established and educated officials as practise around the world. Or is there a more sinister reason it’s being highlighted?
senaka Friday, 26 April 2024 05:57 AM
excel sheet is not a database, and announcing a secret ops like this to the public is a joke, you do your job first then let us know the results
ASK INTERPOL AND OTHER OVERSEAS AGENCIES FOR HELP. Friday, 26 April 2024 08:05 AM
ALL THE IGP NEEDS TO DO IS REQUEST A LIST FROM INTERPOL AND CO-ORDINATE WITH THEM, INSTEAD OF TRYINGB TO DO WORK ON HIS OWN. IT IS LIKE "SET A THIEF TO CATCH A THIEF". OUR COUNTRY IS A LAUGHINGSTOCK WORLDWIDE. MAJORITY OF COUNTRIES WITH DRUG COMING INTO THEIR COUNTRIES FROM OVERSEAS WORK TOGETHER WITH INTERPOL AND HAVE THE DATABASE REQUIRED TO TRACK ALL CONNECTED WITH TRAFICKING, PEDDLING AND TRANSPORTATION OF ILLEGAL DRUGS.
Sambo Friday, 26 April 2024 08:28 AM
They will also join hands with the underworld for the greed of money in no time.
Expose the card board heroes Friday, 26 April 2024 08:48 AM
Great effort by the Police chief. Please also make a note of all those attorneys who clamor to get rid of the IGP and other officers who are attempting to clear the society of these villains.
Jeanne Friday, 26 April 2024 12:54 PM
There is a very famous proverb that says : Set a thief to catch a thief! And this applies without a doubt to this so-called "undercover" operation in Sri Lanka. This is too hilarious!!
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