Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has appointed a special four member committee to study the cases of detained LTTE suspects and expedite legal actions where necessary.A press statement by the President’s media unit said that the committee which has been appointed on the recommendation Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) , began its work by visiting the Boosa detention camp and interviewed 182 detainees on Wednesday.The committee is headed by Deputy Solicitor General Shavindra Fernando and includes Senior State Counsel P. Kumararatnam, Chethiya Goonesekera and Dinal Ratnayake.Earlier the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) in its interim suggestion had suggested expediting the processing of detained LTTE suspects.The Sri Lankan government said that following rehabilitation, 5,586 LTTE cadres out of the 11,696 detained after the war have been integrated into the normal civilian life after giving them various types of vocational training, and in some cases school education, during their detention in rehabilitation centres.The private sector firms have shown interest to recruit them, mostly in the apparel export sector. In June last year 400 rehabilitated female LTTE cadres received employment at a garment factory.Another 84 rehabilitated ex- LTTE cadres were released on Jan. 15 to coincide with Thai Pongal festival. According to the Commissioner General of Rehabilitation, Brigadier Sudantha Ranasinghe there were only nine rehabilitation centres for ex-LTTE combatants at present, though there had been 24 at the inception. The Rehabilitation Chief said that of some 361 child soldiers, who had sat the GCE (O/L) examination last year, 211 qualified to do GCE (A/L)In another development, Sri Lanka Police have commenced interviews to recruit 1,000 Tamil youth to the junior grades of the police service.The interviews are being held to recruit sub inspectors, women sub inspectors, police constables, women police constables and police drivers. The applicants are from Northern Province districts. The selected individuals will be trained in police training schools before being positioned in the police stations in the Northern Province. Earlier this month a batch of 336 Tamil police constables including 16 women officers from the Northern and Eastern provinces was recruited after basic training.