Despite Police Department Statement Private Media is Yet to Receive Police Bulletins

Followed by exposure in Private media  regarding IGP’s private talk with a politician  under taking  not to arrest a particular person,  IGP reported to have instructed  to send  daily police bulletins  only  to  state media  institutions .

 IGP  came under criticism  for this decision. The  National Police Commission Secretary , Aariyathasa  Cooray  joined the forum  and stated that police was under obligation to provide police bulletins to    private media institutions,  especially  when the Right to Information act is in  effect  in the country.

 However, under these circumstances the police department has  announced yesterday,    that the IGP,  Poojith Jeyasundara  had not issued  an order restricting  daily police bulletins  to private media institution.

 But  , since last Tuesday (20) most private media organizations did not  receive regular  police news updates and no reason was given for such a move.