Sri Lanka- STF deployed to outer perimeters of three prisons

2020-08-24 12:20:10

(MENAFN- Colombo Gazette) g loading="lazy" class="alignleft wp-image-163292" src="https://colombogazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/curfew-STF.jpg" alt="" width="239" height="132" "https://colombogazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/curfew-STF.jpg 918w, https://colombogazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/curfew-STF-696x385.jpg 696w, https://colombogazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/curfew-STF-762x420.jpg 762w" sizes="(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px" />By Vyshnavy Velrajh

The Police Special Task Force (STF) has been deployed to provide security at the outer perimeters of three key prisons.

The Prisons Department said that the STF had been deployed to the Welikada, Magazine and Colombo Remand Prison.

Incidents of parcels consisting of heroin and mobile phones repeatedly being thrown into the premises of a number of prisons were reported in the recent past.

Attempts were also made to smuggle in heroin through a cat at the Welikada prison recently.

The Department of prisons launched special operation 'Watchful Eye' to monitor the activities within and outside the prisons following such attempts. (Colombo Gazette)

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