Can We Rely on the Police? The Sri Lanka Police is once again under scrutiny, with former IGP Deshabandu Tennakoon ...

Suspended Sri Lankan police chief Deshabandu Tennakoon was arrested following his involvement in a shooting incident and ...

After Sri Lanka's fugitive police chief Deshabandu Tennakoon turned himself in, a clip purportedly showing him speaking about evading his arrest warrant surfaced online. But the video is from an ...

Sri Lanka’s Police force has long been plagued by allegations of corruption, abuse of power, and a blatant disregard for the rule of law. ..

Sri Lanka's police chief was denied bail on Thursday after going on the run over a deadly illegal raid and facing accusations of being a crime boss. Deshabandu Tennakoon turned himself in on ...

Deshabandu Tennakoon, the suspended inspector general of police, surrendered to the court on Wednesday after evading arrest for over two weeks in a case related to a shooting incident in 2023.

What is unfolding in Sri Lanka’s law enforcement circles reminds us of Greek mythology, of all things. In Plato’s Symposium, we come across the story about how Zeus split humans in two and condemned ...

Deshabandu Tennakoon, Sri Lanka’s suspended police chief, has petitioned the Court of Appeal to stay his arrest in connection with a shooting incident in which an officer was killed. The two ...

A Sri Lankan court refused on Monday to quash an arrest warrant for the island nation's fugitive police chief who is wanted over an officer's death in a botched raid. Inspector-General Deshabandu ...