Security Forces Headquarters (West)

Major General R P S Prasad RWP RSP USP

Geographical Space of 14 Infantry Division is 3684 Sq km.
Two Main rivers flow through the AOR namely Kelani River and Kalu River. The AOR is susceptible to disasters like floods, fire and traffic accidents.
It’s responsible for Gampaha, Colombo and Kalutara Districts, under 40 Divisional Secretariats.
The population in area of responsibility consists with multi ethnic, multi-cultural, multi religion and multi linguist groups.
The population is over 6.1million.

The Operation Command Colombo (OCC) was estb on 02 November 1995 to countering terr activities in the CBO Metropolitan area.
OCC was re-designed as 14 Div on 01 March 2011.
14 Div was placed under comd to SF HQ (West) on 06 April 2015 and 141 Bde, 142 Bde and 143 Bde are placed permanently & 144 Bde administratively under comd to 14 Div, and located at Army camp Bellantara Junction, Attidiya rd, Dehiwala.
14 Div was relocated on 08 Dec 2016 again at the No 41, 8th floor, Renuka building, Chatham street, Colombo 01. Accommodations are located at DR Wijewardana Mawatha.
14 Div office building was relocated on 1st of January 2019 at No:46, Vauxhall Street, Colombo 2.
14 Div (Except Kurunagala Distr) was placed under OOC on 30 April 2019 and activated Sector concept to dominate the AOR.
14 Div was placed again under SFHQ(West) on 05 September 2019.
144 Bde was placed operationally under 14 Div on 10 October 2019.