Sri Lanka’s Parliament on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution to fire chief of police Deshabandu Tennakoon for misconduct and abuse of power. Of the 225 members, 151 voted in favour of the ...

Can We Rely on the Police? The Sri Lanka Police is once again under scrutiny, with former IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon ...

After Sri Lanka's fugitive police chief Deshabandu Tennakoon turned himself in, a clip purportedly showing him speaking about ...

On March 20, the magistrate's court in the southern town of Matara ordered the remanding of Tennakoon ... Tennakoon's arrest over a shooting incident in the southern resort of Weligama on December 30, ...

Sri Lanka's ruling party said on Tuesday it would sack the island nation's police chief, who is in custody awaiting trial over a botched drug raid that resulted in an officer's death. President Anura ...

Colombo, March 21 (Daily Mirror) - Six police officers from the Colombo Crime Division (CCD), who surrendered to the Matara Magistrate’s Court in connection with a shooting incident in front of ...

that sparked a gun battle between competing police units in the southern coastal resort town of Weligama. One police officer was killed and another critically wounded in the incident ...