Time for the Police Minister to take a break from meeting Sandro Chetcuti and get his Zero88 to write another statement
In Times of Malta today, former police commissioner John Rizzo “strongly denies” that police officers ever took visiting police cadets to Comino or Ghadira for days out on police launches or RHIBs, under his years-long watch.
This was the accusation made in the Police Ministry’s statement issued in response to the brouhaha about that infamous picture of two police RHIBs draped with girls in bikinis and policemen in their trunks (plus one still in uniform).
In years gone by, Maltese police officers may well have taken visiting cadets out for a day of swimming – it’s the obvious and civilised thing to do – but I think we’re about to discover that they did so on their own time and in boats they organised privately.
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Elsewhere, today, The Times reported that ‘blind Gozitan lawyer Kevin Cutajar’ has been approved as an MEP candidate by the Nationalist Party.
It is just not on to refer to this man’s physical condition when it is totally irrelevant to the matter at hand.
For the sake of consistency, every time The Times refers to the Police Minister he should be called ‘the grossly obese and repulsive Dr Emmanuel Mallia’. Is The Times prepared to do this?
It goes without saying that The Times would not do this. However true, it would not be correct.
Neither is how they are addressing Dr Cutajar correct.
Yes – it angered me in no small way when I saw it … ‘blind lawyer’ indeed!
How about ‘the very competent young lawyer who against all odds overcame his disability and graduated (and is working) as a lawyer (despite having to live away from home and away from his family, since he is Gozitan and has to commute to Malta for work on a very regular basis) …
Yes, again, despite the fact that he is, as The Times put it ‘blind’.
Go for it Kevin. You deserve all our support and admiration for what you’ve managed to achieve.
If I’m not mistaken, the RHIBs were acquired in 2010. The allegation of the Minister of Police that ‘these things used to happen during the last ten years’ cannot be true.
[Daphne – The police had other vessels.]
And the empty ones are now running the force.
Good one!
So i had a closer look at the picture with the police officers on the RHIBs. There are five men, as far as I can tell, one of them in uniform, and seven women in bikinis.
Now the last statement issued said that four police officers are being questioned/investigated. So assuming there were no Maltese women police officers on that jaunt, then that leaves us with ONE German male police officer on the “attachment programme”.
A rather interesting balance of numbers…
There are 2 officers in uniform. One of them is obvious as he is visible on the first RHIB (left of the photo), sitting down; the second is almost completely covered in the other RHIB. He is standing and someone is directly in front of him…hard to make out the figure, but he is there.
We haven’t yet been told – and no one’s seen fit to ask – how many people on those boats were police officers.
There’s been much fuss made about women in bikinis as though that is somehow more offensive then men in budgy smugglers. Gender is irrelevant. This was supposed to have been a work trip.
Only two of the men are in uniform. How many of the other PEOPLE on those boats are serving police officers who were officially on duty?
Have pity on them. They are only following the example of their leader. When you are accused of something and the accusation is true, just accuse someone else of doing the same thing … we’re back to the schoolyard and the bullies are in charge.
Such behaviour is normal in a child.
When it comes from an adult it is a sign of immaturity.
When it comes in an official statement to explain a situation it is no longer a sign of immaturity, but a blatant attempt at deceit and slander.
It characterises the person or authority making the false statement.
From billboards to bellyaches in less than six months.
Herr Flick calls in the press and closes the family park for health reasons only to have to admit now that there never was any health danger. He goes looking for some other bellyache to justify his inertia.
Didn’t he pull a stunt on Pullicino, presenting him with a sample of ‘poisoned’ fuel oil? He hasn’t yet taken it back now that cabinet extended supply before emissions tests concluded.
Calibrating the grade of fuel with emissions control was key, tests crucial.
There goes your cancer factory. The difference between Labour and the PN was always the degree of embarrassment if something doesn’t sound right.
Helga Ellul MEP candidate for the PN.
Oqghod mur il-playmobil Guz. Min jaf Marlene Mizzi x’panic.
Congratulations Mrs.Helga Ellul.Malta would surely benefit if this serious hard working lady represents us in the EU.
This so-did-our-predecessors business is getting silly.
Cabinet Secretary did the same yesterday when asked how come declarations remained on his desk for more than three weeks.
And if he believed the ones made by the PN why shouldn’t he believe Cardona’s?
Excellent way to render official his bias, the nitwit. Let alone this civil service’s discriminatory agenda.