No punitive action against police officers over suspect’s confession video: Alles

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Colombo, July 18 (Daily Mirror)- Public Security Minister Tiran Alles said that no punitive action will be taken against the senior police officers, including Western Province (South) Deputy Inspector General of Police Gayantha Marapana, for their interrogation of a tattoo studio owner in front of the media.

The video shows DIG Marapana and other senior officers questioning the tattoo studio owner in Athurugiriya, where a shooting occurred.

When asked at a media briefing whether any action will be taken against the officers, he said that he strongly warned them not to make the same mistake again and that no disciplinary or legal action will be taken against them. The Minister also said that he did not instruct the IGP to take any action against the officers.

Minister Alles said that DIG Marapana expressed regret and assured him that such incidents will not recur.

He said that the senior officers who were leading the investigation into the Athurugiriya shooting successfully arrested several suspects, and the media should have understood the situation.

"The DIG and the other officers carried out the investigations. They have arrested all the suspects, except two," he said.

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Rip Winkle Thursday, 18 July 2024 04:07 PM

Enjoy the dance while the music lasts.

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Niaml Thursday, 18 July 2024 04:10 PM

they have arrested all the suspects other than two shooters, statment seems funny no?

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Ram Thursday, 18 July 2024 05:19 PM

No action. May be it happened with the connivance of the present government. If not the Minister and the President have no spines to take action. It is election time and in a corrupt country where politicians are corrupt the no action is understandable

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Dinesh Thursday, 18 July 2024 05:26 PM

No accountability.....This is what happens when stupidity gets appointed to higher positions

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Dilan Herath Thursday, 18 July 2024 05:52 PM

He speaks like the police are babies and know nothing. Like they dont know how to protect evidence and what to share. What a joke.

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Poor Thursday, 18 July 2024 06:24 PM

Only possible in SL. In other countries these damb officers would loose their jobs

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Kathirkamar Thursday, 18 July 2024 06:34 PM

If this has happened in a Western country, there would be a hue and cry in the media against the police for few days and followed by a lengthy investigation lasting months , then at the end of the investigations it would conclude that NO ACTION IS TO BE TAKEN AGAINST THE POLICE. AND THE POLICE PERSONNEL CONTINUE IN THE JOB AS IF NOTHING HAD HAPPENED. The difference is in Sri Lanka there is no “ circus” to fool the people like in the West, the Sri Lankan government openly telling at the outset “ no action is to be taken against those police personnel “.

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DW Friday, 19 July 2024 06:12 AM

I don't think you have really lived in a western country. Probably got the idea from a western movie or you had travelled to one for a week on a tourist visa.

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Judge Friday, 19 July 2024 01:38 PM

@Kathirkamer. You have never lived and worked in a Western country. No wonder SL is where it is due to people thinking and acting like you.

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Chryshan Thursday, 18 July 2024 06:36 PM

How to interdict them when everything happens to a plan of govt crime scenes.

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DJ Thursday, 18 July 2024 08:32 PM

What a joke

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THE WHOLE POLICE FORCE NEEDS A CLEAN UP Thursday, 18 July 2024 11:54 PM

THIS SCUMBAG IS MORE INTERESTED IN PROTECTING HIS STOOGES THAN THE BROADER PUBLIC. MAY HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES AS YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED.

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Charles Jansz. Friday, 19 July 2024 06:29 AM

Unbelievable that there would be no punitive action on the basis of saying there would be no repeat...with no such accountability are we surprised that corruption and law breakers are rampant and injustice thrives !

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Puswadilla Friday, 19 July 2024 08:24 AM

It’s the same as no action taken while money was given to a terrorist organization to sabotage an election and no action was taken about it.

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Bernard Jayatilake Friday, 19 July 2024 12:36 PM

This will create a bad precedent on police inquiries as some officers might be lured by underworld criminals to find loopholes in the law to mitigate or scot free from the law.

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Anura weerawansa Friday, 19 July 2024 04:56 PM

This fabricated story and drama produce by government and Tiran, then how you arrested officers, but next government should be arrest all who involved.

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