Are the police now offering a special escort service through rush-hour traffic, for friends tal-qalba?

Published: October 28, 2013 at 2:24pm

At 8.30 this morning, car no. DBX 497 was escorted by a police officer on a motorbike, lights flashing and with that ‘get out of my way’ sound they use instead of a full siren, through the rush-hour traffic log-jam where the Rabat road ends in the one-way split in Attard.

The car had no passengers, only the driver. It is registered to:

Mark Scerri
79, Elderly, Flt 3
Triq San Gwann l-Grammies,
Rabat

On 8 October, I had received this email and uploaded a post about it:

I was stuck in traffic this morning in Zebbug bypass, between the speed camera and St Dorothy’s (direction Zebbug) when two traffic policemen with sirens blaring urged drivers to make a path between the lanes.

Two cars with hazard lights on followed: a Peugeot saloon (JOE311) and a black SUV MDB*** (didn’t get the numbers). This might be a genuine case, but I was listening to TVAM and there was a link with a member of the police corp who said that there usually are 12 traffic policeman with the number rising to 20 during the day, so I doubt that in dire need you’d find two of them at the ready to escort you, and with another car in tow.

Prompted by the similar incident this morning, I checked to whom JOE 311 is registered and it is:

Joseph Vella
18, J’Adore
Triq l-Flora
Qormi




11 Comments Comment

  1. Redneck Rabti says:

    I think the street is “San Gwann l-Ghammied”

  2. Louis Apap says:

    Scerri. Would he be related to the Minister’s chief of staff?

  3. bob-a-job says:

    Could it be a Meals on Wheels service?

  4. T. Cassar says:

    They must have been delivering tablets to the elderly, door to door, as Muscat had promised. Or perhaps tablets to the students.

  5. Fido says:

    Chances are that the individuals concerned were the next most prominent figures on the billboards after all the names of the protagonists have been exhausted.

  6. fm says:

    Perhaps he was in labour, and they were escorting him to the maternity hospital.

  7. Jim says:

    GQZ 235 – the same happened in Marsa. A police motor bike escorting a Mercedes with just a driver (driving as if someone is about to bleed to death on the back seat) through the morning rush hour.

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