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The Inspector General of Police (IGP) is the professional head of the Sri Lanka Police. They are the most senior police officer in Sri Lanka and oversees all police personnel throughout the country. The IGP reports to the Minister of Law and Order, when the Police Service is under the Ministry of Law and Order as it is currently.
The Presidential Commission of Inquiry Into Complaints of Abductions and Disappearances (August 2015), also known as the Paranagama Commission, after its head Maxwell Paranagama, investigating missing persons Sri Lanka, found close to 19,000 persons confirmed to have gone missing during the Sri Lankan Civil War. 23,586 complaints were received ...
Weerasooriya was serving as the senior deputy inspector general in charge of the North Central Province before he was appointed as acting inspector general of police on 26 September 2024 by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. [5] He replaces Deshabandu Tennakoon, who was suspended from the position on 24 July 2024. [6] [7]
The new prisons system that evolved in Britain was introduced to the British colonies during 1844. The Department of Prisons came into existence first affiliated to the Police Dept. under the then Inspector General of Police Sir George William Robert Campbell under the Act no.18 of 1844.
This date is considered as the beginning of the Sri Lanka Police Service. 1867: The Chief of Police was designated as the Inspector General of Police. William Robert Campbell became the first Inspector General of Police. The Police Headquarters was founded at Maradana, in the City of Colombo.
This is a list of people who have held the post of Inspector General of Police (Sri Lanka) of the Sri Lanka Police. Pages in category "Sri Lankan Inspectors General of Police" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
Tennakoon Mudiyanselage Wanshalankara Deshabandu Tennakoon (born 7 March 1971), known as Deshabandu Tennakoon (Sinhala: දේශබන්දු තෙන්නකෝන්), is a controversial Sri Lankan police officer. He was the first de facto Inspector General of the Sri Lankan Police. The Supreme Court suspended him on 24 July 2024.
However, since the late 1970s, the position of Deputy Inspector General of Police - CID (DIG/CID) was established. The CID was modeled after the British Police Criminal Investigation Department and hence constitute the plain clothes detectives of the Sri Lanka police. The CID has the power to arrest any person from anywhere in Sri Lanka without ...