The Constitutional Council (CC) yesterday (12) approved President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s recommendation to appoint Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Priyantha Weerasooriya as the 37th Inspector General of Police.
Speaker Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne chaired the meeting.
The CC took the decision, unanimously, against the backdrop of the removal of Deshabandu Tennakoon from the post of IGP, through a resolution passed in Parliament.
Weerasooriya was appointed Acting IGP in late September, last year, following Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s election as the President.