(Lanka-e-News, March 30, 2010, 7.25PM) A top rung police officer of the CID told Lanka e news he is ashamed to feed his children out of the salaries he collects from his vocation.
This officer who wished to remain anonymous made this statement while he is undergoing training abroad. The present CID has become shameless lackeys of politicians and has been politicized on a scale as never before in SL, he added. Investigations are never conducted impartially, and they are all warped by political agendas. Hence, he said, his conscience does not permit him to feed his children out of the earnings from this job.
When Mendis was the CID Director, that was the last period when the CID carried out its duties independently. Thereafter, gradually it became a place where the politicians’ wishes were carried out and not the duty to the public was carried out. It is now a degraded den stooping to the lowest level only to please politicians best, he pointed out.
Because of this disgraceful state of affairs , many scrupulous police officers are disillusioned. The CID which was the ‘cream’ of the police plunging so low beyond redemption is a matter for regret, he noted.
At the last Presidential elections 80% of the police officers voted for General Fonseka at the postal polling. But when the results came the picture had been distorted. The CID should first investigate this before anything else, he asserted.
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