More houses for Police personnel

Sarath MALALASEKERA

The housing problem of police personnel will be solved very soon. The Police Department had made all arrangements to acquire bare State lands to build houses for the police personnel, IGP Mahinda Balasuriya said addressing the media at the Police Headquarters Tuesday.

IGP Mahinda Balasuriya

“We are in a modern world, therefore a knowledge of Information Technology (IT) is also very important to police personnel to conduct their day to day duties.”

OICs in 425 Police Stations must have a knowledge in IT to help them with their future work, the IGP said.

Over 600 policemen and women will be given Tamil classes to deploy them to work in the North and in the East specially. Tamil speaking policemen and women will also be deployed in the other districts, the IGP said.

This Tamil speaking training course will be conducted by the Crime Division of the Police Department in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Police Academy at the Crime Division Training at “Vilasitha Niwasa” Colombo, the IGP said.

The Traffic police will also crack the whip on drivers who don’t wear ‘seat belts.’ Not only drivers, even other passengers will also have to use the seat belt for protection purposes, the IGP said.

Over 2,062 fatal and 30,347 other accidents had been reported last year. Traffic police will take all the measures to control the heavy traffic flow on the high ways.

Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) Director General Lakshman Hulugalla, Senior DIG N K Illangakoon, Senior DIG KPP Pathirana, DIGs Sisira Mendis, Lalith Jayasinghe, Senior SPs Ravi Waidyalankara, Sarath Baddewela, Police Spokesman SP Prishantha Jayakody also participated at the conference.