Closing the stable after the horse had bolted

The khaki chief in charge of law and order who visited the South following the recent major incident of violence is said to have breathed fire at the top cops in the area for their failure to nip it in the bud. 

An irate khaki chief, a great exponent of the virtue of meditation, harangued his subordinates in the area in choice Sinhala for several hours, they say.

Number One in yahapalanaya who had heard about the diatribe the law and order chief fired at his subordinates had later severely warned him not to disparage the men working under him, they say.