{"id":100440,"date":"2020-03-28T15:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T22:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100440"},"modified":"2020-03-28T15:52:20","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T22:52:20","slug":"corona-prevention-police-should-do-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/28\/corona-prevention-police-should-do-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Corona prevention Police should do better"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera CEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard Colombo Sri Lanka<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Today I went to the Thalangama police station after calling\nthe OIC who asked me to come in person to get a curfew permit<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a letter from the company involved in export and foreign exchange earnings\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the gate a young cop who was surrounded by many people trying to get into the police station\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After much persuasion, I went in to see the small police \u00a0station of 30x 30 feet reception full of people waiting \u00a0to see the OIC get curfew permit\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was either \u00a0chatting with someone or engaged in official work ignoring the crowd outside shoulder to shoulder despite the advice to keep away from each other\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I approached a cop on duty and explained my requirement and\nhe bluntly told me without even reading my letter to see the OIC<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was not \u00a0happy to stand there even a minute fearing to contaminate myself and walked out disgusted<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How can police behave in such an irresponsible manner rather than imposing strict rules of keeping distance among possible virus carriers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government should first educate OIC\u2019s of police stations to be more disciplined\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera CEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard Colombo Sri Lanka Today I went to the Thalangama police station after calling the OIC who asked me to come in person to get a curfew permit I had a letter from the company involved in export and foreign exchange earnings\u00a0 At the gate a young cop who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}