The Hon. Susantha Kumara Nawarathna
Hon. Susantha Kumara Nawarathna raised concerns about the placement of Civil Defence Department personnel recently attached to the Police Department and the Department of Wildlife Conservation, including 5,000 assigned to address the human-elephant conflict. He said complaints had been received from lower-ranking officers about irregular and inhumane placements, and asked whether the Ministry would ensure proper placements or establish a procedure to regulate them.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Minister, my second supplementary is this.
¶ 02 Recently, the Government decided to attach 10,000 from the Civil Defence Department to the Police Department and 5,000 to the Department of Wildlife Conservation to address the human-elephant conflict. However, when attaching those personnel to those departments, proper placement has not been done. There are humane considerations to be taken into account, but disregarding those, irregular placements have been made in some locations. Many complaints are received from lower ranks. Will you ensure proper placements are carried out? If not, will the Ministry prepare a procedure for proper placements?
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 17 March 2026 ·No. 23387 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Susantha Kumara Nawarathna. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 17 March 2026. No. 23387. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/2996