The Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
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[The National Police Commission may, where he considers it
necessary provide for alternate training for members of any
Provincial Division.]
10. Members of the National Division and the Provincial Divisions shall wear
the same uniforms and insignia of rank, provided that uniforms of the members of
each Division shall bear a distinctive shoulder flash, indicating the Division to which
he belongs.
10:1
There shall be one uniformed police force in each Province,
comprising of the members of the Provincial Division and the
officers seconded thereto. Members of the National Division
shall ordinarily be in plain clothes provided that they may wear
uniforms when performing any duties in respect of the
maintenance or restoration of public order as set out in
paragraph 12:2, 12:3 and 12:4. Provided also that the I.G.P. and
such other Officers as may be specified shall ordinarily be
attired in uniforms.
11. All Police Officers serving in units of the National Division and
Provincial Divisions in any Province shall function under the direction and control
of the D.I.G. of such Province.
11:1
The D.I.G. of the Province shall be responsible to and under the
control of the Chief Minister thereof in respect of the
maintenance of public order in the Province and the exercise of
police powers in the Province as set out in this Schedule.
11:2
The provisions of paragraph 11:1 above are subject to the
qualifications that –
(a)
upon the declaration of an emergency in the Province,
the President may assume such powers and
responsibilities of the Chief Minister and the Provincial
Administration in respect of public order within the
Province as he may, by regulation, provide; and
(b)
where the President is of the opinion that the
security of or public order in a Province is threatened
by grave internal disturbance, he may, without the
declaration of an emergency, but in consultation with
the Chief Minister of such Province and subject to the
provisions of the Public Security Ordinance, by order,
deploy in aid of the civil power, any unit of the National
Division, in the Province for the purpose of restoring
public order:
165 - Substituted by the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 23(4) for “The President may, where he
considers it necessary provide for alternate training for members of any Provincial Division”.
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