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(Excerpted from the memoirs of Senior DIG (Retd.) Edward Gunawardena)
A few months after the SLFP-led United Front Alliance headed by Mrs. Sirima Bandaranaike was elected in 1970, information started trickling in that the JVP was planning an uprising against the government. Cells were formed island-wide and clandestine indoctrination classes conducted by trained cadres. Simultaneously there was a spate of bank robberies and thefts of guns from households were reported to the police from all parts of the island. Unidentified youths were collecting empty cigarette and condensed milk tins, bottles, spent bulbs and cutting pieces of barbed wire from fences to make hand bombs and Molotov cocktails. Instances of bombs being tested even in the Peradeniya campus came to light.
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COLOMBO (News 1st): More than 100,000 people were arrested for driving under the influence in the past 18 months, Police said on Thursday (Feb. 18).
“A total of 103,010 people were arrested in the past one and a half years, for the offence of driving under the influence; the majority of 6690 arrests were made in Anuradhapura,” Police Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana told News 1st on Thursday (18).
According to the motor accident report, Hatton Police arrested 4992 suspects and Kurunegala Division arrested 3681 suspects in connection with driving under the influence.
Moreover, in the past 18 months, a total of 395,325 people were detected with regard to lane discipline and lane law; the highest number of motorists were detected in Nugegoda, DIG Ajith Rohana noted.