President Maithripala Sirisena said that the police made a laughingstock of itself by the immature raid on the estate of UPFA MP Kumara Welgama in search of two state vehicles.

Speaking to a vernacular newspaper, Sirisena said that the police put the government in a very difficult situation through this.

If the police suspected that there were vehicles in that premises, there were better ways to investigate than putting on a spectacle, the President said.

The President's remarks come a week after his attack on the Bribery Commission, the CID and the FCID where he warned that stern measures will be taken if they work according to a political agenda.