Budget update outlines police, research and prison-planning proposals

November 13 update: uniform and police-service proposals

The published report's separate police-uniform report describes a proposed 2027 uniform suited to the climate and modern equipment. It includes renovation of the Narahenpita police hospital alongside police digitisation and training within the reported Rs 9.5 billion allocation. Its latest account gives 2027 without a month; the June timing in the earlier report below should therefore be treated as an earlier reported target, not a newly verified implementation date.

The published report's latest 2027 Budget update reports proposed spending on police modernisation, prison relocation planning, defence research and heritage digitisation. It also says the monthly Rs 750 allowance for parents of personnel who joined the armed forces before 2009 would be increased from July 2027. The update does not state the new allowance amount, so it does not support a claim that the payment will rise to a particular figure.

The report puts Rs 9.5 billion against police digitisation and modernisation of the National Police Academy. Separately, it identifies Rs 200 million for feasibility and planning work on a common police administration building and Rs 500 million for feasibility and planning of a proposed 15-storey Criminal Investigation Department building. Planning allocations are not the same as the full cost of completed buildings, and none establishes that a construction contract has been awarded.

Another reported Rs 300 million would begin work toward relocating the crowded Colombo prison complex to Millewa. The published report also describes a proposed new police uniform from June 2027 and use of technology such as 3D laser scanning to document and protect sacred places and historic cultural sites. These are future measures as reported, not confirmation that prisons have moved, new uniforms are in use or digital records are complete.

The update additionally reports Rs 250 million for a Defence Development Research Centre. An earlier official Defence Ministry account of an August 17 pre-Budget meeting confirms that the President had called for integration of the Army, Navy and Air Force research centres into one national centre. That earlier statement supplies background to the research plan, but does not independently verify the November allocation or show that the new institution is operational.

The current amounts and proposed dates remain attributed to the published report. Final departmental circulars, financing and procurement documents have not been checked for these measures, and no individual allowance entitlement is established here. The accompanying architectural-planning photograph is illustrative; it is not a drawing of a Sri Lankan police building, prison or defence facility.