An Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) who lost his temper that his friend’s complaint had not been investigated fast, had come to the Piliyandala Police
Station day before yesterday (3) Poya day and berated officers and behaved in an aggressive manner. A top police official said that an investigation into this incident has been launched by the Special
Investigation Unit of Police Headquarters. It is said that the ASP’s friend had also been with him at the time. Sources stated that an Assistant Superintendent of the Western Province CommunityPolice Division had behaved in a manner unbecoming of a police officer. These sources said that the ASP had acted in this manner in relation to a complaint made by a woman in Pelenwatta Polhena area on July 3 regarding a money dispute that had occurred during the sale of textiles.
He had yelled, “Do you act only if a good-looking woman comes and makes a complaint?”
“You take money, I know what you do,” the ASP had said and according to the same sources, he had been pacing up and down for over an hour within the police station, berating the acting OIC of the Minor Complaints Division, a sub-inspector and other officers and behaved in a very aggressive manner.
During that time, a large number of persons had come to the Minor Complaints Division and other divisions for various requirements and as a result of the behaviour of this ASP, the police officers on duty had been thoroughly inconvenienced.
Police sources said that the ASP who had been dressed in civil clothing had arrived in the official jeep of the Officer-In-Charge of the Community Police Unit and the ASP is said to have borrowed it saying that he was going to visit a temple in the area.
The sources said that the ASP’s friend had complained to the Deputy Inspector General in charge of the Southern District of the Western Province as well as the Mount Lavinia SSP by phone, even before 24 hours had passed after lodging the complaint, stating that it had not been investigated into.
As a result of complaints being made regarding this top-ranked police officer’s aggressive behaviour to intelligence division officers as well as other senior officers a special team of police officers from the Special Investigations Unit had arrived at the Piliyandala Police station yesterday (4) and commenced an investigation.
The high-ranked police officer said that statements have been obtained from eight police officers including the Officer-In-Charge of the Piliyandala Police Station, as of now.