Sirisena renews issuing of police powers to Sri Lanka's armed forces

by admin
Feb 2, 2015
Sri Lanka’s president, Maithripala Sirisena, vested police powers to armed forces across the island in an “Extraordinary Gazette Notification“ announcement made on Tuesday, renewing an order introduced by the former president, Mahinda Rajapaksa.

 “By virtue of the powers vested in me by Section 12 of the Public Security Ordinance (Chapter 40), I, Maithripala Sirisena, do by this order call out all the members of the Armed Forces specified in the First Schedule hereto, for the maintenance of public order in the areas specified in the Second Schedule hereto,” read the Gazette announcement.

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