Sirisena’s Govt. awarded Senior Police officers for investigating attacks: Witness

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Through third party sources it was informed that former President Maithripala Sirisena's government had given Presidential awards to Senior Police officers including the then SIS Director for their involvement on investigating Easter Sunday attacks, former Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) Director DIG Nalaka de Silva yesterday informed PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks.

The witness said this while responding to a question raised by the Commissioners on whether intelligence officials had received any awards after Easter Sunday attacks.

Silva also said that in 2018, he had requested from the secretary to the ministry of law and order to provide advanced technological equipment to monitor the social media.

"We have limited capacity and resources to monitor the internet. We were given demonstrations by various institutions, including the UN, on monitoring the internet,” he said.

Silva further said that he realized that since a lot of suspicious things now take place online, the TID needed such equipment for online monitoring purposes.(Yoshitha Perera)

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Know All Friday, 17 July 2020 08:27 AM

He was interdicted by a trumped up charge by Namal Kumara that he wanted IO assassinated. No case yet but false complaint not yet investigated as it was fabricated by U NO HOO.

BuffaloaCitizen Friday, 17 July 2020 08:51 AM

All just singing... nothing will happen to those powerful. Another waste of public money.

DJ Friday, 17 July 2020 09:03 AM

What happened to the planned murder investigation of our previous President

FF Friday, 17 July 2020 11:31 AM

DONT WORRY. GOTA CONTESTED PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS AS HE WANTED IMMUNITY STATUS TO GET AWAY WITH SEVERAL CHARGES AGAINST HIM. SO, FOR THE MOMENT WE HAVE TO SHELVE THOSE CASES

Sambo Friday, 17 July 2020 12:51 PM

Why cant we hold top politicians responsible in this country for the crimes and wastage they have done. What kind of immunity are they entitled to. They are a waste to space.

MN Friday, 17 July 2020 03:21 PM

They were awarded for what? their service to cover -up political connections

Maithri Saturday, 18 July 2020 12:45 PM

The general public is getting increasingly confused and frustrated that the real culprits will escape punishment. The law can be twisted and bent to save the culprits.

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