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[Recently the Police Spokesman in an interview telecast over a private TV channel very explicitly announced the criteria adopted in the selection of police personnel in our country. He was to establish among other things that high standards are observed in the selection of police personnel.
Basic academic qualifications, height requirement, chest measurements and inquiries about parental and family background and other specific requirements were announced to emphasise the manner police officers are selected, reflecting the view that officers selected in that manner and trained ought to maintain high standards and behave in a dignified manner. However he failed to qualify that after recruitment some officers by their derogatory conduct have let down the image of the entire service. The same TV channel recently portrayed the demeaning conduct of some police officers in a related incident and rightly re-telecast the Police Spokesman s public announcement to emphasise that such situations had arisen in spite of the manner and efforts made to recruit personnel to the service. On Sunday, September 21 during the mass registration of Tamil persons in Colombo, the same TV channel attempted to interview him, but his reaction refusing to be interviewed by this channel was a bad example of a senior police officer. While the registration was at the request of the citizens committees as stated in an English daily on September 23, the Police Spokesman had said that the registration was done with the approval of the Attorney General. The recent incidents of police wrong doing and indisciplined conduct cannot be concealed with statements of the Police Spokesman. The highest court in Sri Lanka had remarked as reported in The Morning Leader of September 24, that the present Police Spokesman `was a man who blabbers and should not be taken seriously.` But blabbering amounts to be a qualification to receive political protection to continue as the Police Spokesman. His conduct is much more grave as he has not been misquoted. When the biggest political hooligan attempted to snatch the TV camera of the Sirasa cameraman, seen on TV by the public, his statement as Police Spokesman surprised the general public, for it is only a blind person who would say such a thing. A recent newspaper item revealed that he is the son of a respected former minister, who disposed some of his wealth to enter parliament. The former minister was characteristically humble, so much so that when he was not a minister he used to walk from Galle Fort to the bus halt, to the market place and political authority was never hanging on his shoulder. The Police Spokesman should observe the disciplined and worthy comments made by the Armed Forces Spokesman over TV. Police Quo Vadis] |
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