DIG Waruna Jayasundara today assumed duties as 13th Commandant of the Special Task Force of Police (STF).

DIG Jayasundara educated at Dharmaraja College-Kandy, joined the Sri Lanka Police on February 1, 2001 as an Assistant Superintendent of Police. He joined the STF on April 25, 2002.

He was promoted to the rank of DIG on February 1, 2018.

DIG Jayasundara, who was in-charge of the Western Province (North) appointed as the STF Commandant on Tuesday after the transfer of DIG M.G.L. Gunathilaka, who held the post of STF Commandant, to the Trincomalee Division.(Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya)