Inspector General of Police (IGP) C. D. Wickramaratne has been granted yet another service extension, Sri Lanka Police confirmed.<\/p>\n
Accordingly, Wickramaratne, on Friday (03 Nov.) was granted a further three weeks to serve as the IGP, Police Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa stated.<\/p>\n
The current police chief was previously granted service extensions on three occasions, with the most recent one in October.<\/p>\n
Wickramaratne was supposed to retire from the police service on 26 March, 2023.<\/p>\n
However, President Ranil Wickremesinghe had extended his tenure by three months until 26 June by way of a special gazette notification dated 06 April.<\/p>\n
Later, on 09 July, he was granted a second service extension of three months, followed by a three-week extension given on 13 October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Inspector General of Police (IGP) C. D. Wickramaratne has been granted yet another service extension, Sri Lanka Police confirmed. Accordingly, Wickramaratne, on Friday (03 Nov.) was granted a further three weeks to serve as the IGP, Police Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa stated. The current police chief was previously granted service extensions on three occasions, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[47,49,55,56,53,48,54,51,50,41,52],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadstories","category-local","tag-c-d-wickramaratne","tag-igp","tag-lankanewsnetwork","tag-lnn","tag-nihal-thalduwa","tag-police","tag-police-spokesman","tag-president","tag-ranil-wickremesinghe","tag-sri-lanka","tag-ssp"],"yoast_head":"\n