Hon. Rohana Bandara
Hon. Rohana Bandara urged the Minister to ensure faster implementation of decisions and questioned a new circular dated 04.04.2025 establishing Public Security Committees under the “Clean Sri Lanka” initiative. He argued that Community Police Committees already operate across all 14,022 Grama Niladhari divisions and asked whether the new structure would politicize grassroots policing or replace existing committees. He also raised the transfer of the OIC of Kobeigane, noting that the National Police Commission had reversed it but the appointment letter was pending, and alleged that charges were being prepared after the fact to justify the transfer.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Thank you, Hon. Minister. Please act expeditiously; implementation is often delayed.
¶ 02 My second supplementary: To strengthen Police–public relations, you issued a circular on 04.04.2025 establishing Public Security Committees. We already have long-standing Community Police Committees across all 14,022 GN divisions, run successfully by respected local persons without political interference. With your new circular linked to “Clean Sri Lanka,” are you politicizing the structure? We saw the OIC of Kobeigane transferred; the National Police Commission reversed it, but the appointment letter is still pending. No prior charges were served; now charges are being drafted to justify the transfer. Are you dismantling Community Police Committees and using Police structures at the grassroots for political purposes?
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Cite as: Hon. Rohana Bandara. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 10 April 2025. No. 1747999742032122. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/11239