{"id":148036,"date":"2025-02-15T16:41:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T23:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=148036"},"modified":"2025-02-15T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T23:41:03","slug":"over-30000-arrested-in-nationwide-anti-drug-and-crime-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/02\/15\/over-30000-arrested-in-nationwide-anti-drug-and-crime-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 30,000 arrested in nationwide anti-drug and crime operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>More than 30,000 suspects have been arrested in connection with the anti-drug and crime prevention operations conducted by the police across the island, according to Police Media Spokesperson SSP Buddhika Manatunga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Addressing a press briefing today (15), SSP Manatunga stated that these operations were launched on January 12 and have been implemented across all police stations in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of these efforts, a total of 920 individuals involved in criminal activities, 14,000 individuals with open warrants, and 16,000 individuals arrested for drug-related offenses have been taken into custody. In addition, a total of 11,757 drunk drivers have been apprehended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The operations also led to the seizure of 197 firearms, including automatic and locally-manufactured guns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding the anti-drug operations, he said that 14 kg of heroin, 20 kg of Hashish, 33 kg of \u2018Ice\u2019 (Crystal Methamphetamine), and 1,123 kilos of cannabis were seized by police during raids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SSP Manatunga confirmed that these operations are ongoing, with authorities continuing their efforts to combat crime and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the police spokesperson reported that 30 individuals have been arrested in connection with shooting incidents that occurred this year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 13 shooting incidents have been reported in 2025, seven of which were linked to organized crime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result, nine individuals have died, and two others have been injured in these shootings, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana More than 30,000 suspects have been arrested in connection with the anti-drug and crime prevention operations conducted by the police across the island, according to Police Media Spokesperson SSP Buddhika Manatunga. Addressing a press briefing today (15), SSP Manatunga stated that these operations were launched on January 12 and have been implemented across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-order"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}