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Over 400 Tamil speaking cops recruited so
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The police headquarters had recruited 335 Tamil speaking personnel in 2010 and several hundred more will join the police soon.
As a part of the government's initiative to recruit 2000 Tamil speaking police officers a considerable number of youth from North and East would be recruited in December 2011. Final interviews for another batch of almost 600 other personnel would begin on Sept 22, Director Recruitment SP W. K. Jayalath has told The Island.
Since the end of the humanitarian operation, the government has established over a dozen new police stations in areas once controlled by the LTTE.
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.
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa had authorized the recruitment of Tamil youth from the Northern Province as part of Sri Lanka’s reconciliation process in the post-conflict era.
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