New badges for Prison Intelligence Unit

Sarath Malalasekera

Prisons Commissioner General V.R. de Silva has introduced a new badge to the Prison Intelligence Unit to prevent mobile telephones and hard drugs being used in the prison department premises.

The electronic and print media had given wide publicity that mobile telephones and hard drugs were being used by inmates. Several steps were taken including appointing senior prison officers to the Prisons Intelligence Division with a new badge to prevent this situation, said the Prisons Commissioner General.

According to the Prisons Commissioner General 70 overseers, 10 guards and four jailors have been trained by the Police Special Task Force to combat the situation inside the Prison Department.

This special unit will examine the parcels and food brought to the prisoners by their relatives at the entrance to the Prison department. This Special Unit will also visit prisons departments outside Colombo to take action against drug peddlers and combat crimes, the Prisons Commissioner General added.