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Serving police officers to be detailed as personal assistants to retired IGPs , SDIGs
The Government is to provide retired Inspector Generals of Police (IGPs) and former Senior Deputy Inspector Generals of Police (SDIGs) with a number of serving police officers as personal assistants.
Accordingly, a retired IGP will be provided with a detail of one Sub Inspector, one Police Sergeant, two constables and a police driver while a retired SDIG will be provided with a police sergeant, a constable and a police driver.
The move comes after a recommndation by the National Police Commission (NPC) based on a request made by Acting IGP Chandana Wickramaratne.
The Acting IGP had asked that retired IGPs and SDIGs be provided with a detail of serving police officers as some had been greatly inconvenienced and even faced embarrassment on several occasions, sometimes even by serving police officers who did not know who the retired officers were.
NPC Secretary Nishantha Weerasinghe told the Sunday Times that the NPC had forwarded its recommendation on the matter to the Defence Ministry secretary.
The practice of providing retired senior officers with a detail of serving personnel is already present in the tri forces, with former commanders being provided with a driver and personal assistant.