Today was check all cars day
It is indeed a great job that the Sri Lankan military is doing right now. Also searching all vehicles is a very good strategy that they have adopted. However, like anything else, there are loopholes; some may be at a huge cost. During the search today, I thought of checking alternative roots to avoid the checkpoints. Of course this was done in the aim to look at how coordinated the search was. Nevertheless, to my dismay it was not that coordinated.
Eg:
All vehicles traveling down Havelock road, near BRC was been checked. So I went via park road, cut across isipathana, and then went towards Dickmans road. So technically, I avoided the checkpoint that stopped all vehicles. I managed to escape on more than 4-5 occasions before heading back home in Copity. I wanted to see if search all cars thing did work. Sorry to disappoint you IGP/Military heads, but I managed to divert from 3 main checkpoints without been searched.
Just for the record, when searching vehicles, ensure that you search both sides of the road (no getting away), that way, once one sees a checkpoint, it is indeed difficult to turn back and go. And all vehicles which turn back should be checked more! Technically, I could have carried a bomb without been detected. So if I can do, I don’t see why the Terrorist cannot do such thing?
Thank you and hope this will indeed help you.
Friends, please do comment so that we can help the Sri Lankan military crack down terrorist. Also, report any illegal activity that you see, so we can help them to help us.
posted by Anonymous at 9/23/2006 02:15:00 PM
4 Comments:
Yeah, but there is a limit that you could check. The main objective would be to make the terrorist think twice before trying anything!
Making the terrorists think twice by checking all the vehicles on the road and causing huge traffic jams? Mate, that may work with criminals but it pretty much pointless with terrorsts. Think about it. If you were a terrorist transporting weapons or a bomb into Colombo and you see a huge jam coming from Wattala, are you going to stay in line and be checked? All it does is make people miss flights, miss important events, suffer on the way to the hospital etc etc. I know people say that security is paramount but it has to be done smartly. Almost all the successes have been through smart intelligence work and tip-offs...not at checkpoints. And no matter what anyone says, the economy has to go on and all these meanigless traffic jams are just making Sri Lanka a worse place for business and investment. Even if you are the most rabid warmonger, you will realise that the country has to be economically strong to fight a war!
Correct, good point. But also, i think they have to monitor and keep people on their finger tips?
How many noticed that the Colombo "International" Bookfair was a large collection of Sri Lankan human beings just asking for something nasty? nothing was checked in it, we went in and we went out , I was just thinking , someone could take out say a thousand in one go if they wanted here -(it need not even be a bomb-just starting a stampede would have been enough-)
this is where a few properly trained sniffer dogs could have come in handy, but then to subject an animal to oxygen starved chaos like that would in it self be an animal rights violation...
moot point- maybe we should go easy on festivities of that scale until things are sorted
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