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Friday, July 18, 2025

Gulf View resident to meet investigator on police raid

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Radhica De Silva
2263 days ago
20190507
Sea View Drive, Gulf View resident Ravi Dinanath shows the side of his yard which SORT officers passed during a raid of the area on Friday.

Sea View Drive, Gulf View resident Ravi Dinanath shows the side of his yard which SORT officers passed during a raid of the area on Friday.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

Gulf View res­i­dents say they will be fil­ing com­plaints to the Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty against po­lice of­fi­cers who en­tered their home dur­ing a raid last week.

In an in­ter­view, re­tired oil work­er Ravi Di­nanath said he con­tact­ed Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith via What­sApp and com­plained about the con­duct of an of­fi­cer who was hos­tile to his fam­i­ly dur­ing the raid.

He said while his wife Lelawa­tee Di­nanath was gasp­ing for breath fol­low­ing an asth­ma at­tack dur­ing the raids, the po­lice con­tin­ued to ques­tion her about the where­abouts of their el­dest son. He said the son was nev­er ar­rest­ed by po­lice or even asked to come in for ques­tion­ing.

Fol­low­ing a let­ter to Grif­fith, Di­nanath said he was con­tact­ed by an of­fi­cer from the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau.

Di­nanath said he asked the of­fi­cer to find out whether or not there was a war­rant for the ar­rest of my son.

Last week, po­lice raid­ed sev­en homes in the Gulf View area. They were search­ing for a pack­age. One per­son was ar­rest­ed and sub­se­quent­ly re­leased. How­ev­er, res­i­dents said the man ar­rest­ed was a street dweller.

Fol­low­ing the raid, Grif­fith as­sured the pub­lic that re­cent search­es con­duct­ed by the TTPS in the La Ro­maine dis­trict were con­duct­ed for a spe­cif­ic pur­pose and not based on race, pol­i­tics or re­li­gion.


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