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LST REVIEW
Volume 20 Issue 272 June 2010
SRI LANKAN POLICING - FROMA SOUTH ASIAN PERSPECTIVE
LAW & SOCIETY TRUST
 
 
 
CONTENTS
LST Review Volume 20 Issue 271 May 2010
Editor’s Note i-iiThe Network for Improved Policing in South Asia –Possibilities of Engagement in Sri Lanka 1-31
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Sumant Balakrishnan
Reminiscences of my Police Days… 33-38
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Tassie Seneviratne-
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LST Review 272 (June 2010) |
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 Editor’s Note ………
Encouraging effective and independent policing in Sri Lanka has often beenfocussed on in the
LST Review,
in past Issues.Much of the essential problems that negatively affect the functioning of thepolice in this country are common to the rest of Asia. This Issue publishes areflective essay by
Sumant Balakrishnan
written on invitation of the
Review
,who draws upon the discussions emerging from recent South Asianconference discussions hosted by the New Delhi based CommonwealthHuman Rights Initiative (CHRI), to illustrate the daunting tasks facingreformers of policing systems in the region.One key point in his extraction of the relevant issues that were discussed isthe extent to which training of police officers is able to address the problem.The consensus of South Asian lawyers, retired and serving police officers,(many holding command level positions in the police hierarchy in India) andactivists was that training by itself, is of little use. As was pertinently warnedby one delegate who is himself a trainer;
“We need to see training being complimented by other activities andindependent police oversight is one of those. But it is also importantto have strong management and supervisory structures in a policeorganisation. Since there are severe disparities in training at variousranks, once cannot expect rank and file to implement what they learnin training unless there is managerial oversight to ensure andencourage it to happen. So there is a need for strong internaldisciplinary and oversight mechanisms to ensure that this willhappen.”
 A further focus of the discussions was the role that community policing couldplay in bringing about better policing in a particular area with illustrationstaken from some initiatives in India and Pakistan. Such efforts are at apreliminary stage in Sri Lanka.Underpinning the discussions was the acknowledgement that, at least whereSri Lanka was concerned, the basic loss of the independence of the police andits increased militarization which has culminated in the Department of thePolice continuing under the Ministry of Defence even in the post war period,has resulted in discussions about civilian oversight being rendered largelyfarcical. The following question has peculiar resonance therefore;
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