Sri Lanka is taking strong action against human trafficking

The Board of Officials appointed by the Secretary Defence, General (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne, under the Chairmanship of the Chief of National Intelligence coordinates the Task Force that consists of the Senior Officials from the Attorney General’s Department, Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Labour, State Ministry of Foreign Employment, Promotion and Market Diversification, Criminal Investigations Department, Department of Immigration and Emigration, Bureau for the Prevention of Abuse of Children and Women, Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment, Department of Probation and Child Care Services, National Authority for the Protection of Victims of Crime and Witnesses and the National Child Protection Authority and several other government institutions.

 

On being informed of the possibility of the said women being victims of human trafficking, the Task Force had taken action to request the IGP to transfer the relevant investigation to the newly established Human Trafficking Division of the Criminal Investigations Department.

 

Also, within hours of being made aware through several sources, the action was initiated by the Task Force on the 16th December 2021 to request the IGP to investigate the Human Trafficking issue highlighted and the Human Trafficking, Smuggling and Maritime Crimes Division of the Criminal Investigations Department is already halfway through the investigation regarding this matter.