Police union wants action against MP

The Sri Lanka Police Inspectors’ Association issuing a statement said that the threat by a ruling party legislator on a police officer was an insult to the entire police service.

Galle District MP Nishantha Muthuhettigama reportedly has asked a senior police official to transfer the Officer-in-Charge of Akmeemana police station vowing that he would physically assault and chase him unless the official complies with his demand.

Stating that they would not object to any disciplinary investigation regarding the police officer, the Police Inspectors’ Association said that they had requested the Speaker, the Inspector General of Police and the Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in writing to probe the threatening incident and take action against the MP.

“The MP had publicly abused the police, thereby challenging the Police Department and law of the land,” the officers’ Association said.

The controversial MP Muthuhettigama, who has lost his temper on many occasions, has been remanded in 2009 over threats made on the Galle Returning Officer.

He has also been remanded for threatening actress Anarkali Aakarsha, during the Southern Provincial Council elections in 2009.

Muthuhettigama has also allegedly threatened the Deputy Secretary and the Acting Chief Secretary of the Southern Provincial Council.

As a result of the lawmaker’s behaviour he was once removed from the post of chief organiser of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in Akmeemana. (www.colombopage.com)