Sri Lanka, March 14 -- The government of Sri Lanka has taken steps to establish a new pool of investigation officers to conduct preliminary inquiries into misconduct within public sector institutions.

The Investigation Unit of the Ministry of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Government is currently mandated to conduct preliminary investigations into misconduct occurring within its scope of institutions, as well as complaints referred by the Public Service Commission, the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA), and the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE).

However, due to the increasing volume of complaints across numerous government agencies, the unit's existing capacity-consisting of only 20 investigation officers-ha...