" Actually, if we could do that it would be good, however as a third world country we don’t have that facility. But in all other developed countries they monitor emails, telephone conversations, SMS and people in the streets. So they have a lot of monitoring systems and also all their systems are integrated. Unfortunately, ours is not. All security agencies in these countries could, by simply giving a number; can obtain all the details of a person. But we don’t have that facility and in fact we have to develop such a system."

When Gotabaya has himself revealed in media more than 8 months back that Colombo is on CCTV and that all mobile, internet and landline connections have security features including banking kiosk etc. he cannot hope to come back just a few months later and say it is not so - especially since the operations were under his purview. The problem with the NIC cards that have also been funded several times but are deficient is also a direct fault of his as apparently now he is stating that service does not come under the Home Office but again through his ministry. Before there is additional funding or materials available for this the implementation of the 17th amendment is needed to see where these funds went. Through SLBC, the state media apparatus, the needed connections were made intraisland and there is no further requirement for such as the entirety of Colombo has been complaining about how the utterly illegal practices of Gotabaya using these services to conduct personal vendettas has been complained about repeatedly.
http://transcurrents.com/tc/2010/02/we_have_been_very_successful_i.html
If valuable information has been obtained through KP then that information should be appropriately shared with "western" security apparatus such as Interpol and there must be a real brain drain at the Rajapaksa camp because after they have been told repeatedly what the correct process was to gain such assistance or information they still neither follow procedure or provide information in a manner that is acceptable to Interpol. Calling this western based racism is just a pat excuse for not properly formatting information to continue to hide people that the Rajapaksa administration does not want to be found such as key individuals involved in the Seylan/Gold Key/SLIC scams.