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Educating criminals to evade
A popular crime story series being aired on national television has made many in the police service angry. They say the programme is giving away many of their modes of investigation thus making it more and more difficult for them to track down criminals.

"This programme is educating the criminals and not the public, " a police officer said.
He said that the detailed nature in which the programme shows how fingerprints are taken and how sniffer dogs work has led to many criminal adopting methods so as not to leave fingerprints and also using other tactics that make it difficult for dogs to follow their scent.

" Very soon we will have to close down the finger print unit," the officer grumbled saying it was a mystery why the senior officials in the Police force were turning a blind eye to such a happening.

Media friendly
The LTTE's decision to announce its proposals on the Interim Administration in Kilinochchi on Saturday drew a great deal of media attention. More than 170 journalists from the local and foreign media were in line to be present at the briefing.
Almost all guesthouses in Kilinochchi and Vavuniya were booked in advance and even attempts by the LTTE to provide accommodation for the scribes failed to meet the demand.

Fortunately for them, this time the LTTE cadres did not subject the journalists to the stringent checks as when they attended the press conference held by their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran last year. The LTTE cadres sure are getting more and more media friendly.

Top PA politicos at SC
There was a host of top PA politicians present in the Supreme Court on Friday when the Court sat to hear submissions on a reference by President Chandrika Kumaratunga on the law relating to the exercise of executive power of defence.

Among them were the President's Foreign Affairs Adviser Lakshman Kadirgarmar PC, PA General Secretary D.M. Jayaratne, Mangala Samaraweera, Nimal Siripala De Silva, Dinesh Gunawardena, Janaka Bandara Tennakoon and Dilan Perera.

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