Suranganie Fernando, who wrote to the Editor (DN April 17) under the caption ‘Selling paradise isle dream’ and drew attention of the Chairman Tourist Board, Renton de Alwis, about Oogling at females by male population inside Sri Lankan resorts, which she highlighted as “quite offensive, unsettling and threatening”, can at least be happy now that her valiant point through the Daily News has gained good ground.

It is evident that her suggestion has gone via the Chairman of the Tourist Board to the heights that matter and consequently the Minister of Tourism and Minister of Defence have taken swift and remedial action to re-establish the New Tourist Police Division under the theme ‘Prevent, protect and delight’.

The initial establishment of a Tourist Police in Sri Lanka was the brainchild of the late President R. Premadasa during his tenure a Prime Minister at a time when whole flood of foreign tourists swamped the golden beaches of down South of Sri Lanka. It was a phase when female, white, shapely bodies started sunbathing in the nude inside star hotel compounds and walked in G-string bikinis along the Galle Road, particularly in the Hikkaduwa area, while the odd white male muscular pieces of humanity started to scout for boys for sexual pleasure, which in turn enticed the some of the young and local folks’ eyes and turned the whole act into a pied piper scenario.