Police under control of Forces : IGP out, major General as Police Commissioner
(Lanka-e-News -27.Oct.2012, 10.30PM) The beleaguered Rajapakse regime is taking special measures to dismantle the Democratic Institutions , and transform the rule into an army Govt., according to reports reaching Lanka e news.
This special and sly measure is to remove the present IGP post , and instead appoint a Major General of the Forces as a Police commissioner . By deceitfully using the present Police commission this appointment is to be made. Gotabaya Rajapkse had already informed the present IGP of the prospective changes stating that a police officer should be fully physically trained, duty conscious , efficient and likeable . Even the present police official uniform is to be changed .After Gotabaya’s return from India , as a first step he had instructed the IGP to arrange to bring the Police physical training division under a Major General of the Forces.
The present IGP is to be dispatched in the early part of next year as a High Commissioner after sending him on retirement , and a Major General is to replace him as Police Commissioner.
In most Democratic countries in the world, the police Force is not under the purview of the defense Ministry, and they only come under the Municipal Councils as a civil security force. In SL however , this has been completely perverted , and has been brought under the full control of the defense Ministry with a clandestine aim to creating an army administration .
Even now as part of this measure , the OIC s of police stations and police chiefs in charge of divisions are being replaced by STF officers. 60 % of divisional police chiefs are of the STF.
Though Gotabaya has lost his sense and direction and is muddling up the police force with ulterior motives , it is clear to anybody with a common sense that since the STF is a force that is created to fight in war , most STF officers appointed have no knowledge of or training in civilian control , crime investigations etc. as they are not experienced in those spheres. They haven’t the full competence in these directions. A high rung police officer said, this can cause multiple problems with the crime wave shooting up.
(Lanka-e-News -27.Oct.2012, 10.30PM) The beleaguered Rajapakse regime is taking special measures to dismantle the Democratic Institutions , and transform the rule into an army Govt., according to reports reaching Lanka e news.
This special and sly measure is to remove the present IGP post , and instead appoint a Major General of the Forces as a Police commissioner . By deceitfully using the present Police commission this appointment is to be made. Gotabaya Rajapkse had already informed the present IGP of the prospective changes stating that a police officer should be fully physically trained, duty conscious , efficient and likeable . Even the present police official uniform is to be changed .After Gotabaya’s return from India , as a first step he had instructed the IGP to arrange to bring the Police physical training division under a Major General of the Forces.
The present IGP is to be dispatched in the early part of next year as a High Commissioner after sending him on retirement , and a Major General is to replace him as Police Commissioner.
In most Democratic countries in the world, the police Force is not under the purview of the defense Ministry, and they only come under the Municipal Councils as a civil security force. In SL however , this has been completely perverted , and has been brought under the full control of the defense Ministry with a clandestine aim to creating an army administration .
Even now as part of this measure , the OIC s of police stations and police chiefs in charge of divisions are being replaced by STF officers. 60 % of divisional police chiefs are of the STF.
Though Gotabaya has lost his sense and direction and is muddling up the police force with ulterior motives , it is clear to anybody with a common sense that since the STF is a force that is created to fight in war , most STF officers appointed have no knowledge of or training in civilian control , crime investigations etc. as they are not experienced in those spheres. They haven’t the full competence in these directions. A high rung police officer said, this can cause multiple problems with the crime wave shooting up.
