Four-member police team to assist committee probing IGP

A four-member police team has been appointed to investigate the allegations against IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon. The team will assist the committee in conducting the ongoing investigations.The appointment was made following a request from the relevant parliamentary committee to the Acting IGP.

The Committee of Inquiry, chaired by Supreme Court Justice P.P. Surasena, consists of Justice W.



M. N. P.

Iddawala and the Chairman of the National Police Commission (Ex-officio), E. W. M.

Lalith Ekanayake. The Resolution to appoint a Committee of Inquiry in terms of Section 5 of the Removal of Officers (Procedure) Act, No. 5 of 2002, to remove Tennakoon from the office of the Inspector General of Police for misconduct and gross abuse of power of his office in terms of Sections 3(d) and 3(e) read with Section 5 of the said Act, was passed in Parliament on 8 April.

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