STF to be withdrawn from highway security

Sagala Ratnayake, Senior Presidential Advisor on national security and Chief of Staff of the President, has directed the relevant authorities to prepare a plan to facilitate the withdrawal of the STF from highway security.

Ratnayake has asked Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen. Shavendra Silva to oversee the preparation of the plan.

Instructions in this regard were issued recently at a meeting attended by senior officials of the Road Development Authority (RDA) in addition to General Silva and Commandant of the STF Senior DIG Varuna Jayasundera.