{"id":491,"date":"2026-04-28T11:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/?p=491"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:16:55","slug":"nationwide-special-operation-576-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/2026\/04\/28\/nationwide-special-operation-576-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide Special Operation: 576 Arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have released the daily report of a nationwide special operation conducted to curb crime and drug-related activities, following instructions from the Inspector General of Police.<\/p>\n<p>The operation was carried out across all police divisions, covering stations island-wide, with the aim of arresting suspects linked to criminal activities.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, a total of 27,901 individuals were searched yesterday, and 576 suspects were arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Among those arrested:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>17 individuals were directly linked to criminal activities<\/li>\n<li>227 were wanted on arrest warrants<\/li>\n<li>158 had open warrants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>115 individuals were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol<\/li>\n<li>61 were arrested for reckless driving<\/li>\n<li>4,174 individuals were booked for other traffic violations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police stated that such operations will continue as part of ongoing efforts to maintain law and order across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have released the daily report of a nationwide special operation conducted to curb crime and drug-related activities, following instructions from the Inspector General of Police. The operation was carried out across all police divisions, covering stations island-wide, with the aim of arresting suspects linked to criminal activities. Accordingly, a total of 27,901 individuals were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tamilmail.lk\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}