The Sri Lanka Police's reliance on "monthly case targets," drug planting, and deliberate court deception — exemplified by the Gampaha Magistrate's Court proceedings — is not an isolated anomaly or a mere administrative failure. It is the normal functioning of a capitalist state apparatus built to defend private property, suppress social unrest, and enforce the dictates of the ruling class, including the imposition of IMF austerity on workers and the poor.
Police brutality and structural corruption are not the disease. They are the symptoms. The disease is the capitalist state itself — its laws, its courts, and its law enforcement, all of which exist to preserve class rule.
The illusion of reform must be rejected. No amount of institutional restructuring, judicial rebuke, or internal circular can transform the police into a neutral or progressive body. The systematic inflation of case numbers, the falsification of drug quantities, and the misuse of draconian legislation such as Section 54 of the Poisons, Opium, and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance serve one purpose: to criminalize and victimize the most vulnerable layers of society — workers, the rural poor, and youth — while projecting a false metric of "efficiency" to mask systemic decay.
The disease has to be eliminated. This requires the abolition of the capitalist state and the entire legal apparatus that serves it.
Only the working class, united with the oppressed masses and leading them, can accomplish this task. Through independent political mobilization — through action committees in every workplace and neighborhood, breaking with all capitalist parties and their trade union appendages — the working class must dismantle the capitalist state and establish a socialist society based on genuine human equality.
The fight against police brutality is inseparable from the fight against capitalism itself.
Sanjaya Jayasekera
28/10/2026
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