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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 - 6.10 GMT |
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Over 6,000
Tamil youth seek to join police |
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Over
6000
Tamil
youth
called
for
interviews
to join
the Sri
Lanka
Police
at
interviews
held in
the
Jaffna
Peninsula
recently.
These
included
around
1000
young
women.
The
interviews
were for
recruitment
for the
positions
of male
and
female
Police
Constables
and
Police
drivers.
Information
about
the
interviews
were
known by
word of
mouth,
and
conducted
at the
Duriappah
Stadium
in
Jaffna
last
week.
Youth
from
Jaffna,
Kayts,
Chavakachcheri
and
Point
Pedro
faced
the
interviews
conducted
by
Senior
Police
officers.
The
government
has
taken
action
to open
police
stations
in areas
that
were
earlier
under
the
control
of the
LTTE, in
the
North
and the
East so
that law
and
order
issues
are
addressed
by the
police
and the
civil
administration.
For this
purpose,
the
police
need
more
Tamil-speaking
police
constables
and
officers.
The last
major
recruitment
drive in
Jaffna
was done
in 1979
and
subsequent
drives
elicited
little
or no
response
from the
Tamil
people,
because
the LTTE
prohibited
anyone
joining
the
security
forces,
police
and
threatened
attacks
on Tamils
who
joined
them.
The
government
has
already
recruited
more
than 500
Tamil
speaking
persons
to the
Police
service
in the
East.
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