Top cop set for historic sacking over crime links


The nation’s police chief is set to be sacked, the country’s speaker of parliament announced after he was found guilty of heading a criminal network at an impeachment hearing.

Inspector-General Deshabandu Tennakoon would become the first head of police in the island’s history to be impeached after being deemed unfit to lead its 85,000-strong police force.

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