The PN inherited this police force from the Mintoff regime and they did not have the balls to reform it and sort it out.

Thanks to the incompetence of the PN or rather lack of balls.

This is not the police that was cultivated and nurtured during 25 years of Nationalist governance.

This is a police force that is being led by the flotsam and jetsam from a police force that emerged after that paragon of police rectitude, V de Gray, retired. He was followed by a stream of Commissioners of Police of short durability until Mintoff hit on his ultimate choice who distinguished himself by imprisonment in connection with a murder inside the police GHQ.

You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.

This reminded me of many years ago when I was still a teen. My brother and I were stopped at a road block in San Gwann. They scared the hell out of us with a submachine-gun in our faces and they deliberately clicked the safe off the weapon.

We did not act on their demands as we froze like a block of ice. They continued to shout and scream at us to get out of the car which eventually we did. They obviously found nothing in the car but my college books.

When the 1987 elections came about we expected the newly elected government to rid us of these unprofessional characters from the Force. Prof Demarco did just that. He made it a point to restructure the Force and give them a decent training by structuring the Academy.

May I remind the younger generation that today we have the EU and all the Human rights violated in those days will not be tolerated.

Furthermore the Commissioner should realise that like his predecessor he stands to be responsible for the acts of any other officer in the Force. The Police Force is there to protect the general public and one is innocent till proven guilty apart from the fact that they are there to act as conveyors of the law, not the law.

Malta taghna lkoll

You’re reminding me of kev ta’ Sharon. Is he busy packing or is he already here?

L-Imhallef: “U int ilek taghmel dan, Surgent, mill l-ewwel darba li ilbist din l-istess uniformi grand juza!”