Police probe senior police officer’s alleged clandestine affair

• with female drug trafficker

By Chandrasena Gamage   

 Police have initiated investigations regarding a clandestine relationship between a senior police officer in the Thanamalwila division and a woman suspected of drug trafficking and her involvement in a murder.    

 Police had raided a guest house in Thanamalwila to arrest her only to find the police officer in her company. However, the police officer is alleged to have used his official powers and left the scene.    Only the suspect woman Sri Warnasinghe Arachchige Dineshika Niroshi of Nonagama had been arrested during the raid and handed over to Hambantota police.   
A senior police official in the Tangalle division said a formal investigation of the incident was on going and that a team of officers from the Colombo Crime Investigation Division had recorded the statement of the police officer involved in the incident and gathered further information from Tangalle Crime Investigation Division.