Reforming Security Sector to Inculcate Professionalism: An Integrated Security Policy for Sri Lanka

Abstract

Security is a pre request for any sovereign state in its way towards the prosperity of its citizens. Sound security policies have made grate states remarkably stand as iconic. To reach this magnitude of success, Security, as a concept and state practice have moved very much away from the competitive path and tilted towards corporative arrangements. Security will not have only national security domain as most believed and further encompasses much wider spectrum for nation or state in the contemporary state concept. Studying the Security paradigm and arrangements are mostly interconnected concepts. In that most important factors can be understood within the national security of state and peripheral areas like linking of National security to Homeland security (Concept of USA) and National International and Human security paradigms. The integrated approach to face the threat perspective will reverse the traditional process of division of executive power. Instead it will set it under one umbrella and one objective, it is safeguarding national security. In the context of Sri Lankans security arrangement, it is obvious that Sri Lanka is still capitalizing on the old Westminster arrangement, as their strategies to face eventualities. Existing concept which clearly separates the task and role of government ministries to ensure the accountability. The vision of the US homeland security umbrella is totally otherwise and it ensures the nexus among the work of the branches of executive to ensure a state that is safe, secure, and resilient against terrorism and other hazards. Even in the Sri Lankan situation the professionals must have a clear sense of what it takes to achieve the overarching similar corporative security structure. It is visible that solitary approaches that most of the Sri Lankan ministries are used to solve their security problems have been ineffective in nature due to hierarchy and much complexity and procedural concepts. This paper looks at the need and possibilities of integrating the relevant branches of executive (Govt. ministries) to establish sustainable security for Sri Lanka and addressing a articulating unique executive system of integrate organization with having authority when need of hour for nation to address .The author will adopt a mix method to gather data relevant to the subject matter.