The government over the weekend stated a mass recruitment drive of Tamils and Muslims to the police force in the Batticaloa district with more than 500 applications being received and the Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal (Karuna faction) confirming that in the future its cadres may also be recruited, according to Colombo based Daily Mirror.“During the last two days, more than 500 applications had been received and most of them were from Tamils,” a senior area police officer said. He said it was a major success and the police expected the drive to reach the required number of youth within a short period.
TMVP head of political wing , Thileepan says the party had not yet decided on formally merging its forces with the police but did not rule out the prospect in the future.“In the future that might happen but at the moment a decision has not been taken, so our cadres did not take part in the recruitment drive by the police over the weekend,” he said. The police official said the government expected to open more than 50 police stations in the newly captured areas including Thoppigala, Vakarai and Verugal. He said it was necessary to deploy Tamil officers in these Tamil populated areas to have a good rapport with the local communities. [Daily Mirror]
Photo : Theleepan, head of political wing of the TMVP in his office at Meenagam, Batticaloa by Lanka Guardian
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