IGP is plotting to sabotage CID investigations

 

Aug 25, 2017

 

There are reasonable suspicions within the Police Department that IGP Pujith Jayasundara is working to sabotage activities of the CID. The most immediate reason is that he is trying to get a stooge of his appointed as its director.

 

CID director B.R.S.R. Nagasmulla has been promoted a DIG and will be given another positing. The director position goes to a SSP. The CID wants Shani Abeysekara appointed its director. However, Jayasundara is disregarding that request and is going to recommend Mevan Silva, who is in charge of the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) to the position.

 

The SIU is purely a unit that is bound to implement orders of the IGP. Its chief works in disregard of the law to fulfill needs of the police chief, and is a puppet in the hands of the IGP. 

 

Jayasundara believes that it was the CID that had given CCTV footage of his assault of the elevator operator to the media. The police lawyers association is investigating not the assault, but as to how the media got the video footage of the incident. In such a scenario, Jayasundara is clearly having ulterior motives to ignore an experienced investigator like Abeysekara and tries to get a stooge of his appointed as the CID director.

 

Mevan is a person who had exchanged blows with ASP Wimal Samarasekara around 10 years ago in a dispute over who should be deployed at airport duty. Those who are in the know, best know as to why policemen like to be on duty at the airport. Also, the only ability Mevan has is to satisfy the needs of his superiors. In that, the police ordinance, criminal procedure code, penal code or any other law is irrelevant to him.

 

Jayasundara too, never received commendations, but got punishment transfers only during his police career, because he played havoc anywhere he went. Now, he finds both the CID and the FCID a big headache for him, as both institutions do their jobs independently without giving into his wants. He is carrying tales against officers of these institutions to law and order minister Sagala Ratnayake and other ministers whom he meets. He tried to do likewise with the president and the prime minister, but both just ignored him. His predecessors would have been biased, but they had never fallen to the depth of Jayasundara, who only brings disrepute to his department.

 

What he is trying to do is to change the minds of the president and the PM in order to remain in his job. For that, he is getting the support of the JVP, reports say.