Sort out your issues in 14 days Speaker tells squabbling IGP and NPC

Inspector General Pujith Jayasundara and the National Police Commission (NPC) has been asked to resolve their issues in two weeks time. The duo was summoned before the constitutional council after widespread reports of disagreements between them with the IGP failing to implement certain recommendations made by the NPC. 

National Police Commission (NPC) and Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara appeared before the council on Thursday. 

Among the issues between them were problems pertaining to the promotion of Kilinochchi SSP Palitha Siriwardena, promotions of 129 officers subjected to political revenge, removal of OIC Narammala from his post, investigations into educational qualifications of DIG Nalaka De Silva and the Suspension of OIC Statistics Division.

According to Police sources IGP Jayasundara has been blocking several of the recommendations on various grounds. Sources say for example the list containing 129 names of officers who claim to have been subjected to political revenge by the previous government, however, includes names of certain police officers known to have had close connections to the earlier regime, creating serious doubts regarding the vetting process utilized by the NPC to recommend promotion on the basis.