(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today received Rs. 775 million worth vehicles donated by the Government of Japan to Sri Lanka Police.
Ambassador of Japan to Sri Lanka Akira Sugiyama symbolically handed over anti- terrorism surveillance and investigation vehicles including 31 jeeps, 04 buses and 10 vans donated by the Government of Japan for the use of the Sri Lanka Police Department to the President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat Office yesterday (16).
These vehicles are the first batch of equipment donated by the Government of Japan to the Sri Lanka Police for the country’s counter-terrorism efforts in the wake of the Easter Sunday terror attacks in 2019.
In addition to the vehicles donated today, under this grant aid worth JPY 1 billion (Rs. 1.7 billion), a wide range of essential equipment for enhancing counterterrorism and public security capabilities is to be donated to the Sri Lanka Police and the Airport & Aviation Services Sri Lanka (AASL), including Mobile X-Ray Scanners, Walk Through Safety Inspection Gates, Vehicle Chassis Safety Inspection Systems, and Patrol Craft.
As a long-standing friend of Sri Lanka, Japan is firmly committed to combatting terrorism together with Sri Lanka, the Japanese Embassy said.
Japan renews its deep condolences to all those affected by the Easter Sunday terror attacks in 2019, and strongly hopes that the equipment donated under this grant aid will enhance Sri Lanka’s counter-terrorism capabilities.
Among the dignitaries in attendance at the ceremony were Sarath Weerasekara, Minister of Public Security, C.D. Wickramaratne, Inspector General of Police, and W L A S Priyantha, Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police.
