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BY Kingsley Wickremasuriya, Senior DIG (Retd.) The post of Inspector-General of Police is ‘vacant’ and the government is dilly-dallying with the appointment of a successor to take over, apparently for reasons of political expediency. This is the first time in the known history of the Department that the Police had to face such a situation. […]

PLACES, PEOPLE & PASSIONS (3Ps) Dr. Chandana (Chandi) Jayawardena DPhil President – Chandi J. Associates Inc. Consulting, Canada chandij@sympatico.ca Profile Gemunu commenced his hotel career in 1975 peeling onions, as a Kitchen Trainee at Hotel Neptune. He then continued with the same company for 43 years, slowly and steadily climbing steps, as Assistant Chef in […]

Dixit factor, Lakshman Kadirgamar and Bangalore SAARC Summit (Excerpted from volume ii of the Sarath Amunugama autobiography) My far-reaching decision to come back to Sri Lanka entailed making several changes regarding personal affairs. Once again my family was to be broken up with my wife and children remaining in Paris. When I told JRJ and […]

The author is a staunch advocate of police reforms and was one of those who contributed to the proposal put up by the OPA in 2001 that brought some police reforms in the form of the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. In Retrospect By Dr. Kingsley Wickremasuriya Senior Deputy Inspector- General of Police (Retd) E-mail: […]