NO IGP AS CRIME RATE CONTINUES TO SOAR

Served as the additional director and director of the State Intelligence Service.

Served as the senior DIG of the Eastern and Central Provinces.

2023: Appointed as the Senior DIG Administration by the Inspector General of Police C. D. Wickramaratne.

He was accused of failing in his duties to prevent the Easter Sunday attacks in 2019.

A key witness in the State’s 2019 Easter Sunday case against former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando as well as then IGP Pujith Jayasundera.

The Supreme Court ordered disciplinary action against him and ordered to pay compensation to the tune of Rs. 75 mn to the Easter Sunday carnage victims.

Served as the Police Media Spokesman on several occasions.

2021: Promoted as Senior DIG.

2021: Appointed as Director of the National Child Protection Authority.

2021: Appointed as Senior DIG Crimes and Traffic.

Serves as a member of the National Authority on Tobacco & Alcohol (NATA).

1998: Joined the Police Service as an apprentice Assistant Superintendent of Police.

2006: Promoted to the position of Superintendent of Police.

2015: Appointed as Deputy Inspector General of Police.

2019: Appointed Senior DIG and functioning as the Senior DIG in charge of the Western Province.

Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the Easter Sunday bombings recommended a disciplinary inquiry be initiated against him.

Allegedly accused of involving violence at Galle Face, on May 9, 2022.

Accused over a criminal accusation that he had allegedly aided and abetted to commit criminal breach of trust with regard to Rs. 17.8 mn recovered by protestors inside the President's House on 09 July, 2022.