Police brutality in the dock
Brutality claims: Hakmana residents stage a street protest on Monday over the wounded boy's claims he was badly assaulted while in police custody
Sunday, November 08, 2015
Today the Lankan Police is placed in the nation’s dock, publicly indicted with the charge of resorting to inhumane and primitive methods to wring confessions out of suspects in police custody.
The time has arrived for the Chief of Police to publicly take cognizance of
the allegations made by the victims, to take note of the concerns raised by various human rights groups and to make his own confession — voluntarily, of course — of the rotten state of affairs that exists in his department and affirm to the nation his vow to clean his barracks: not cover up his mess. The good name of the police is at stake; and, as the head of the khakied Sam Browne force under his command, the baton stops in the Police Chief’s hands.