serviceyears death_place death_date birth_place allegiance birth_date rank article_title name department
1937 - 1959 sri lanka october 20 , 1994 ceylon sri lanka ceylon 1909 deputy inspector-general of police sydney de zoysa
 sydney de zoysa ceylon police force
sydney de zoysa

sydney de zoysa -lrb- 1909 - october 20 , 1994 -rrb- was a sri lankan senior police officer .
a former deputy inspector general of police -lrb- dig -rrb- of range ii and permanent secretary to the ministry of internal security , he was one of co-conspirators of the attempted military coup of 1962 .
born to sir francis de zoysa , kc an advocate and member of the first state council and ethel perera amarasekera siriwardena , his brother stanly de zoysa was a former cabinet minister of finance and a member of parliament .
his uncle was sir a. e. de silva .
he was educated at royal college , colombo and at ceylon university college where he read economics and was an active sportsmen .
while at university he joined the ceylon police force as a probationary assistant superintendent of police and was sent to tangalle district as his first duty station in 1937 .
he went on to become a deputy inspector-general of police .
he became the first director of the police training school that was reestablished at katukurunda , kalutara in 1948 .
prior to his retirement in 1959 he served as the dig of range ii .
after retirement he served as the permanent secretary to the ministry of internal security .
during police serviced he received the ceylon police medal for meritorious service , defence medal 1939-45 , ceylon police independence medal and the service medal of the order of st john .
as member of the christian elite , who ever being deprived of the influence they once had due to the sihinalaisation process started by prime minister s.w.r.d. bandaranaike and carried on by sirimavo bandaranaike , several disgruntled christian officers of the army , navy and police began to plot a coup similar to that of general ayub khan .
he was a co-conspirator of it and as been claimed to be the architect of it .
