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| Sunday, 29 June 2003 |
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IGP urges officers to be alert by ANTON NONIS Inspector General of Police, T.E. Anandarajah has warned his men to be extra careful when detailed to serve as Intelligence officers in the police department. Instructions have been sent to the Intelligence Units in all police stations in the country the manner they should carry out duties without endangering their lives and also the lives of their informants. This follows the killing of intelligence chief of Dehiwala police, Sunil Thabrew last Monday, the first such incident in the police. It is learnt that IP Thabrew has been associating with his alleged killer for some time and had even intervened to get him released when he was arrested by Wattala police on a previous occasion. Mr. Anandarajah said that IP Thabrew may have been too trusting of the informant or may have appeared to trust the informant with the intention of flushing out valuable information needed by the Intelligence. Whatever the reason, the IGP said Thabrew should never have forgotten that this informant was a well trained man and might turn against him at any moment. Being a man on intelligence, the most sensible thing for Inspector Thabrew to have done would have been to be more vigilant about his informant throughout the process, the IGP said. He also regretted that there had been instances when men assigned on intelligence work did not stick to instructions on how they should deal with the informants, which subsequently jeopardised their whole operation. |
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