The following story
beats the cake, and I am sure the whole story as usual has not been given to
the reader. In short the Police from the Padukka Police Station barged into a
private party of a person leaving for an overseas job the following day, and
beat the man senseless, and is now hospitalized in Homagama Base Hospital.
What on earth are the Police doing there
unless they have a warrant for a search which they clearly did not have. So to
trespass a private party in the first place is illegal, and added to that a
whole series of criminal acts were perpetrated. I don’t know if the Police
Officers were inebriated, but that is not the point.
The Police have a job to protect the citizens
from criminals who break the law. Simply put they must enforce the law fairly
and justly so that the Citizens of Mother Lanka are protected from criminals.
What happens when the Police become the criminals? Who is there to protect the
innocents?
In answering those questions, one is
clear that there is a serious breakdown in law and order and it is the Police
who are behind this in MANY cases, and NOT a few that is attributed to the
Police by the senior Police Officers who
are either ignorant or choose to be blind!
One cannot stress enough the importance
of the police to be law abiding, and to be seen to be law abiding too. They
must resist the pressures put upon them by unsavory political goons who
threaten them with transfers and more heinous pitfalls if they do not do as
they say. It is time that the Political Goons, of which there are many in the
Island, are also shown the door, so they do not try to establish as practice
this completely abhorrent behavior.
I am sure this news item will just die
with this story, with NO follow up. We must find what happened to the
violators, and if they were booked, prosecuted to the full extent of the law
and if found guilty receive adequate punishment, so that it is a deterrent.
Additionally, it would be appropriate for the OIC Padukka to be reprimanded, transferred
and found wanting, as he cannot control his staff, who should have been able to
behave in a more salutary manner, and not engage in beating innocent civilians to
pulp for self gratification. Watch this space!!
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