IGP to address ethical concerns about traffic offence videos

IGP CD Wickremaratne has undertaken, before Parliament’s Ministerial Consultative Committee on Public Security, to look into ethical concerns about videos of traffic offences being leaked to the media.

The IGP did so when the consultative committee members pointed out that there had been instances where some traffic policemen filmed traffic offences and released videos to the media with no heed for the offenders’ privacy.

The Committee was of the view that the police must respect the privacy of any offender.

The committee meeting held with Minister Tiran Alles presiding was attended by MPs Akila Ellawala, Weerasumana Weerasinghe, Shantha Bandara, MWD Sahan Pradeep Withana, Charles Nirmalanathan, Kulasingam Dhileeban, Madhura Withanage, Velu Kumar, Dr. V. Radhakrishnan, Vijitha Berugoda, Upul Mahendra Rajapaksha, Mahindananda Aluthgamage, U. K. Sumith Udukumbura, Sanjeeva Edirimanna, Ranjith Madduma Bandara, Rajika Wickramasinghe, A. Aravindh Kumar, Asanka Navaratne and the top brass of the Police Department, parliament sources said.