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Officer shortage delays processing complaints at Police Commission

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3 months ago

July 7, 2023

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Over 12,000 complaints, including appeals made by police officers, have been piled up at the National Police Commission (NPC) due to the shortage of officers.

An official of the commission said many complaints that were directed to the Public Services Commission were redirected to the NPC following the passage of the 21st Amendment to the Constitution.

However, he said that almost half of the NPC staff have been sent on compulsory retirement.

It was reported that at present the NPC functions with a staff of around 70 officials though it requires a minimum of 150 personnel.

The official noted that several requests were made to the Public Administration Ministry and the Department of Management Services to recruit more officers, but no response has been received so far.

The NPC said that requests for transfers, promotions and appeals seeking permission to rejoin the police were among the appeals made by police officers.

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Cargills FoodCity assault : suspects released on bail

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36 mins ago

September 25, 2023

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The suspects recently remanded over assaulting a young woman at the Borella Cargills FoodCity supermarket, have been released on bail.

Colombo Additional Magistrate Sajindra Weerasuriya today (25) ordered to release the suspects on a surety of Rs. 5,000 each.

The suspects were produced before an identification parade and the complainant identifies 05 out of the 07 suspects.

Also, it was previously stated that the complainant had committed previous offences, it was singular that no such thing was mentioned in the police reports submitted to the court.

The court ordered to take up the case again on Nov. 08.

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Fmr. SDIG gets 5-yr. jail term

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3 hours ago

September 25, 2023

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The Ratnapura High Court has sentenced former Senior DIG Lalith Jayasinghe for five-year imprisonment for intimidating Kahawatte OIC not to arrest MP Premalal Jayasekera over a shooting incident.

Ratnapura High Court also ordered the convict to pay a fine of Rs. 20,000.

The shooting incident took place during the 2015 Presidential election campaign.

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Notice on issuing revenue licenses in WP

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6 hours ago

September 25, 2023

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The Department of Motor Traffic has decided to temporarily suspend the issuing of revenue licenses in the Western Province due to a system update.

According to the department, the services will be unavailable from this Wednesday (September 27) to next Monday (October 02).

The Motor Traffic Department said in a statement that vehicles of which revenue licenses are expiring from Tuesday, September 26 can be renewed until October 10, without fines.

Meanwhile, the online service for revenue licenses was temporarily suspended from midnight yesterday (September 24) and will remain so until Friday, October 06.

The department added that the temporary service suspension was due to an update on the system maintained by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka.