DIG of the Colombo Range, Lalith Pathinayake has been appointed as the acting DIG of the Sri Lanka Police Traffic Division. The temporary appointment was made at the request of IGP Pujith Jayasundara to the Police Commission.
The request was made due to the retirement of the former DIG of Traffic Chula De Silva on December 6. The division has been functioning without a DIG for over two weeks as the Police have been unable to find a successor to the post.
Though DIG Chula De Silva had formally requested for a service extension he was not granted his request due to top political interference. The outgoing DIG was highly experienced in the area of Traffic Management.
However, the Police are said to be in turmoil now as there appears to be no suitable candidate for the job. Officers of the division have been left disgruntled due to the current state of affairs with one senior officer questioning the state of the Police today as a result. “What does it say about the Police department if we don’t have a suitable candidate for this job” he was overheard as saying adding that the Police department is in a pathetic state at the moment.
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