A senior police reshuffle covering three Deputy Inspectors General, eight Senior Superintendents and one Superintendent has been issued subject to the approval of the National Police Commission, NewsFirst reported on Tuesday.
DIG D. P. Chandrasiri has been transferred from Nuwara Eliya District to take charge of Puttalam District. DIG A. G. J. Chandra Kumara has moved in the opposite direction, leaving the Police Field Force Headquarters to take over Nuwara Eliya. DIG R. A. D. Kumari, who headed the Prevention and Investigation of Child and Women Abuse Bureau, has been transferred to Field Force Headquarters.
Among the Senior Superintendents, K. G. P. B. Samarapala — until now in charge of the Teldeniya Police Division — has been moved to the Director’s chair at the Western Province Intelligence Division. The reassignment lands amid an intensified Western-suburbs crackdown on foreign-run cybercrime networks, where the Western Province Intelligence Division has played a central operational role.
The transfers are subject to formal approval by the National Police Commission, the constitutional body charged with appointments, transfers and disciplinary control over the police service. NewsFirst said eight further SSPs and one SP are also affected, though their reassignments were not detailed in the announcement.
The reshuffle is the first significant senior-officer movement since the foreign cybercrime crackdown and the latest Police Spokesman briefing that disclosed 628 foreigners arrested year-to-date for cyber and immigration offences.
