By Sarah Hannan The Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) is to submit a report on the recently appointed Criminal Investigation Division (CID) Director Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) A.R.P.J. Alwis, as directed by the National Police Commission (NPC), The Morning learnt. Last week, Ahimsa Wickrematunge, the daughter of the slain The Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, had written to the NPC to reconsider the appointment of SSP Alwis to the post of CID Director. NPC Secretary Nishantha Weerasinghe said that the commission has requested a report from the Acting IGP regarding SSP Alwis. “The letter sent by Ahimsa Wickrematunge was taken into due consideration and the commission has requested a report on the newly appointed CID Director. The contents of the letter named the alleged involvement of SSP Alwis in the preliminary investigations of Lasantha Wickrematunge’s murder,” he noted. Prior to his appointment as the Director of the CID, SSP Alwis served as the Director of the Terrorism Prevention and Investigation Division. The letter lists that SSP Alwis is unsuited to such a high office; Wickrematunge accused him of having suppressed evidence and shielded suspects in order to screen Lasantha Wickrematunge’s murderers from punishment. However, the CID was ordered by then Acting IGP C.D. Wickramaratne to arrest Alwis and produce him before the Magistrate. After the presidential election, the Acting IGP suddenly changed his mind and failed to arrest or produce SSP Alwis as a suspect for the slain editor’s murder.