Police inaction tops public complaints to NPC

Rasika SOMARATHNA

Complaints of police inaction (33 per cent) in probing registered cases, tops the list of grievances received by authorities in 2008 against the Police, according to an analysis carried out by the newly appointed National Police Commission.

According to data analyzed by the NPC, authorities had received 1,380 public complaints against the Police in 2008.

The majority of the cases falls into the category of Police inaction (33 percent) with misuse of power (23 per cent) and partiality (13 per cent) being next in line.

Assault (seven per cent) and unlawful arrest and detention (six per cent) come next.

According to NCP Secretary D. M. K. B Tennekoon, the same trend prevails when analyzing the public complaints received against the Police by his Commission so far. Since February 23 the NCP had received 224 complaints against the Police. They have so far categorized 129 for investigations.