The occasion of inaugurating the new four-storey building constructed with the objective of increasing training capacity

The new four-storey administrative building constructed on the premises of the National Police Academy in Katana was inaugurated on the morning of 24.06.2025 under the leadership of the Hon. Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs, Mr. Ananda Wijepala. Concurrently, the official website developed for the National Police Academy (https://npa.gov.lk/) was also launched.

The National Police Academy in Katana has started and conducts several courses to equip police officers representing every police rank with the knowledge required to perform their duties efficiently while keeping abreast with the fast-moving world.

Having identified new social issues that arise from time to time and starting courses to educate police officers to suit such matters is also a great service offered by this establishment.

Further training courses are being conducted with foreign training institutions such as the International Association of Police Academies (INTERPA) and the Association of Police Training Institutions in Asia (APTA) in order to impart knowledge of foreign languages such as Hindi, Chinese, Arabic, and Korean to the police officers of this country to deal with tourists as well as to represent foreign peacekeeping forces.

The National Police Academy, which currently conducts 02 Higher Diploma courses, 07 Diploma courses, 01 Advanced Certificate course and 24 short-term courses, has so far trained 6670 officers since 2023. Furthermore, it has also taken steps to conduct degree programmes for police officers in collaboration with state universities and has awarded degrees and diplomas to 735 officers.

The main objective of offering such new infrastructure facilities is to significantly increase the said number of officers and to shape officers with good personality to serve the world.

The Secretary to the Ministry of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs, Mr. Ravi Seneviratne, Additional Secretary to the Ministry of Public Security, Mrs. Malika Suriyapperuma, Acting Inspector General of Police, Attorney-at-Law, Mr. Priyantha Weerasooriya, Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police – Western Province, Mr. Sanjeewa Dharmaratne, Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of the Training and Higher Training Range, Mr. Sajeewa Medawatte, Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of the Special Security Range, Mr. Dinesh Karunaratne, as well as professors and lecturers of local universities and staff participated in this event.