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by Neomi Kodikara

While the Central Provincial Council is looking for landfill sites to dump tonnes of garbage, Environmental Units will be set up in each A Grade police station of the province.

Nimal Madiwaka, DIG of the Central Province announced at a meeting with Officials of the Legal Division of Environmental and Natural Resources Ministry at the Institution for Fundamental Studies, Hantana that these units will handle the `task' of environmental hazards in the province,

Asoka Ratnaweera, Senior Superintend of the Police - Kandy Division said environmental issues have been overlooked and ignored by the police during the past, however now that realization has dawned that atttention should be paid to this aspect and as a result environmental Units will be established. These units will specifically look into environmental pollution, violation of the law and the offenders pertinence to community problems.

In addition a committee including a representative from the Police has been appointed to each Gramasevaka Division to coordinate the community with the environmental units of the police.

He added that setting environmental units in Police stations would help to minimise illegal gemming at Horton Plains, Norwood, Bogawantalawa and Maskeliya. In addition, illegal sand mining in the Mahaveli river between Peradeniya to Gampola would be brought to an end while unauthorised dwellings in Upper watershed areas could be removed. Unwise waste disposal was another environmental hazard found in the Province.

This is one of the projects of the Sri Lanka Police Department's 100 day rapid programme.

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