sri lanka's commissions of inquiry - Law & Society Trust

Detention
Inspector General of Police to be required to provide monthly
statistics of compliance. IV.3
A penalty for non-compliance, including the chain of command
responsibility for such non-compliance, be specified. 162 IV.2
All Island,
Final (84)
All Island,
Final (84)
4. Detention -
Southern, Final
(i) to be at authorized places of detention only .
(173)
(ii) A receipt be issued to detainees with particulars of
detention. 163
(iii) A right to communicate with relatives be recognized and
be implemented. 164
(iv) Registers of detention to be maintained; including
detention at temporary camps. 165
(v) Particulars of detainees held at temporary camps must be
entered in the main Army Camp/Police station as well. 166
2001
2001
1997
162.
The only penalty provided for non compliance in Regulation 20(10) is a penalty of up to two years imprisonment and a fine by the High Court
for the offence of failure without reasonable cause to issue a document acknowledging the fact of arrest or wilful omission to make an entry
in the information book as the case may be in accordance with Regulation 20(9). [ER 2005]
163.
According to Regulations 19(3) and 21(2), detention may be in a place authorized by the Inspector General of Police. [ER 2005], [ER 2010]
164.
Regulation 20(9) imposes on the arresting officer a duty to issue to the spouse, father, mother, or any other close relative, a document
acknowledging the fact of arrest. The proviso to this paragraph states, however, that where it is not possible for an arresting police officer to
issue such a document, he must make an entry in the information book giving reasons why it is not possible to issue such documents and in
the case of an armed forces arresting officer, he must report to the officer in charge of the police station the reasons why it was not possible to
issue the documents, who in turn would enter that information in the information book. [ER 2005]
165.
In relation to both forms of detention, the IGP may, when he considers it expedient to do so, permit visits to and correspondence to such
person in such manner and at such time and place as the IGP may from time to time direct. Regulations 19(3)(b) and 21 (2)(b) [ER 2005], [ER
2010]
166. No provision.
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