Jack Farrugia, one of the police officers on guard outside that flat in Xemxija, has taken exception to my reports about the subject
This is Jack Farrugia, one of the police officers on guard duty outside flat 2, Ambjent Complex, Xemxija, the one with the top-secret resident revelation of whose identity would be a threat to national security (I quote the government).
He doesn’t say that he’s one of those stationed there, but I know anyway. Just out of interest, would you put somebody like this on guard duty outside a building where somebody associated with threats to national security is camped out?
And if that really is his car as the number-plates indicate, how did he buy it?
I don’t know about you, but this idiot looks like a massive security risk to me. If I were that man inside the flat, I’d be worried. If I were a terrorist planning on doing in Jack Farrugia’s charge, not so much.
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He’s a policeman and he’s breaking the law riding his motorbike without a helmet.
I don’t know but are you familiar with the word photo shoot???
[Daphne – Police officers in photoshoots? And without helmets on motorbikes with chicks? So help us God.]
The law doesn’t make exceptions for photoshoots.
Is that car his own?
I believe it’s also illegal to switch car plates onto another car, especially since the other car belongs to someone else.
Manuel Mallia must be paying police officers very good money for him to be able to afford that car.
Have you forgotten that the price of petrol has gone down by 2c?
The price of petrol will be going down by 2c on the 1st July
I hope JF won’t be asked to do deliveries in it. You never know, but some of the pizza juices may leak out and drip all over the refined upholstery. Now that would really be a pity, wouldn’t it.
I admit I’m not a slow driver myself, but Ive seen this white Mercedes constantly flashing its brights while tail-gating other cars at night then overtaking BETWEEN cars on the Regional Road on at least two occasions.
One one occasion it passed a Rapid Intervention Unit car at an insane speed and the officers briefly switched the siren and flashing lights on only to switch them off after they realised what the number plate was, I’d assume.
[Daphne – “Le, hi, dak Jack.” You are more right than you know. Jack Farrugia is with the Rapid Intervention Unit.]
So was this a case of cover-up by colleagues? The public, in a normal country, need to know. If police colleagues do not protect us from their irresponsible colleagues then what next?
The ones wearing ninja uniforms?
Surely not from a policeman’s salary – maybe he has a little something going on on the side.
Being a policeman in Malta surely opens many doors.
Just see what it did for Tumas Fenech when he was on duty outside the Marsa abattoir.
l-iktar jekk tkun pulizija korrott.
As an accountant, and just a dwarf with a calculator, I say it’s time to quote this:
“Yeah, I’ve got a calculator, which is useful.
Because I can account for every bill, receipt and cheque in boring detail.
The taxman’s always welcome at my house. If he was tipped off about you…
Let’s see. He’s a copper, so he earns this much.
Bugger all.
And he spends this much.
It doesn’t make sense, unless he’s on the take.”
good one Mr Baxxter :)
Follow the trail, i.e. the money trail.
Photo shoots seem to pay well these days.
I would love to write something … but sadly I’m incapable of writing proper and coherent English.
I am sure that Mercedes was paid in cash saved on all the point duty allowances since he joined the force.
What sort of due diligence and background checks are done on security personnel?
zilch , nil.
Looks like he used his car for some wedding.
It’s unclear what his view is on freedom of speech but his commitment to self-censorship is admirable and quite refreshing.
I am not surprised about a policeman buying such a car. He could have found 500,000€ under the mattress. We cannot judge.
A policeman having such a car raises a lot of questions? Even an investigation should be held to see how he got all that money to buy.
Maybe his license plates JF stand for Just Fucking or Jack Fucker.
Under the clown Muscat, Malta is fast returning to the Horrible 70s and 80s.
WTF were the Maltese thinking when they voted the Socjalisti back in power last year?
Bill Millam
Los Angeles
I wish I knew!
I think that numberplate was / is on a John’s Garage vehicle.
John Farrugia is/was (?) the John in John’s.
Looks like a wedding car, used for a wedding as evidenced by the photographers and the rosette.
Would not be very special to use one’s own car for one’s wedding.
Perhaps they are related, as that vehicle, without Y plates, should not be used for hire or reward.
This car figures nowhere on the John Garage’s website and they have no two-letter numberplates.
http://www.johnsgroup.eu/wedding-cars/#!prettyPhoto%5Bgall%5D/5/
And they don’t do white Mercs.
I am almost 100% sure that that numberplate was on a 4×4 driven by one of the directors of John’s Garage. I know them all although not that well nowadays.
Quite possibly it was just shifted to the white car for the photos due to the fact that the initials match this person’s, or perhaps the car is used by one of the directors and now bears those plates.
el bandido guapo
So you’re assuming that a hire company would swap numberlates and risk a fine?
Maybe John’s Garage could weigh in on this.
Miskin wiehed minn dawk li ma jiflahx ihallas il-kont tad-dawl u l-ilma. Mnalla kien Joseph.
A police office (I presume) and a men in black agent riding a motorcycle with his better half’ without a crash helmet. I was under the impression that that is/was(?) the law. And this clot goes about showing how much of a male he is by flouting the law. I suppose some are more equal than other holds true.
Before blurting out false accusations against people, shouldn’t you check your facts out first? If you would have done so, you would have realised that most of the above accusations are incorrect and judgmental. Apart from being a police officer following orders, he also has a private life in which you shouldn’t poke your curious noses into! Instead of following other people’s statuses and lives, you should create a life of your own. As for the rest, you should know better than believing such gossip. You should start thinking on the consequences such article/comments will bring along. Do you call this journalism?
[Daphne – Jack Farrugia is in fact a police officer stationed outside the Xemxija flat. If he doesn’t want his photographs discussed, he should not upload them to full public view on Facebook. He does that for the express purpose of having them discussed. There can be no other possible purpose. Of course, what he wants is favourable discussion. But the flipside is that he also gets critical views.]
Just in case you do not realise you are spilling out confidential information about an undercover mission. Very professional of you! Moreover, unlike you and your fellow gossipers, we are not interested in where he is stationed, especially if the Police Force has decided to keep this undercover for security reasons. One last thing – if you are into facebook you would know that the screenshot you provided is not of someone who has public view on his facebook profile. You should first learn to keep yourself out of other people’s private business, irrespective of their position in society and then get your facts right before pointing your fingers at others. (Remember one finger points at him and three point to you.)
[Daphne – Some undercover operation indeed, with between four and eight men milling around in dark glasses around that front door 24 hours a day. And yes, his Facebook profile is on public view, which is how I was able to get that screenshot despite not being on Facebook. Tell your friend to read Facebook’s terms of use, and while you’re at it, do read them yourself as they are helpful.]
Is Fleur Marrac the chick in Jack’s pics?
Undercover mission.
What does he do then, wrestle Fleur Marrac under the sheets?
Fleur Marrac sounds au fait with Jack Farrugia’s confidential undercover mission. Please don’t tell me that what we have here is a secret service policeman who blabs in bed.
I can’t believe I have to explain undercover work to a police offer and friend.
When working undercover, you are expected to hide in plain sight, that is, blend in: wear casual clothes, act natural and not draw attention to yourself.
If you’re doing a stake-out for someone’s protection, you should guard the premises in a way that you can see who’s going in and out WITHOUT EVER BEING SEEN. Someone else could be stationed inside the property to help guard from within.
What these officers are doing is neither undercover nor secret. They are in plain sight, in cars with heavily tinted windows, and they also get out of the car to stretch their legs and have a bit of a walk around and a natter.
Oh, and just for some basic Facebook info, if you upload photos/statuses/shares with a public setting, ANYONE can see them, even if they’re not on your friends list. If you don’t want everyone to see certain posts, then upload them to be viewed by friends only or by specific friends on your list.
“[Daphne – Some undercover operation indeed, with between four and eight men milling around in dark glasses around that front door 24 hours a day.]”
LOL!
“Patriots” is codespeak for ‘racist’. Did he vote for Norman Lowell too?
Calling Daphne a witch was so incredibly amateurish, regardless of whether the officer had cause to be annoyed.
In fact, it makes everyone in the chain of command look like complete amateur idiots who have no control over their ill-disciplined subordinates.
Really? A journalist, whose role in our democracy is enshrined in international law, is called a witch by an ill-disciplined police officer (with an unbelievably expensive Mercedes). And this is who they chose to protect our national security?
Amateurish, right up the chain of command.
To be fair he did not call Daphne a witch. Why are you assuming he is referring to her?
That close-up of the stiletto tickling the silencer… I am aroused.
Is Fleur whoever threatening you, Daphne? What are these people – they have no idea how to handle themselves in public or on Facebook.
Is that a shopping trolley they’re frolicking over in those modelling shoots?
If Undercover Jack is working on such an important case shouldn’t he be keeping a low profile and not be on Facebook at all? Bunch of uncouth idiots.
A witch all right, because just by uttering abracadabra she can get all the vital information in Malta that no one else can ever hope to obtain.
Call me sexist as much as you want, but I will take a “witch” with Daphne’s gorgeous looks, ANYTIME!
Please take that as a compliment, Daphne.
Bill Millam
Los Angeles
That’s the Merc E class, priced from 50,000 Euros, it can go up to 90,000 Euros.
I should have become a ‘policeman’.
Come one guys look at the bright side. I just got a glimpse of a member of the Malta Police Corp, on Saviour Balzan’s TVM show ‘Reporter’, lamenting the dismal pay of police officers at all levels. Next time this comes up, this photo can stop the argument dead in its tracks and our taxes will go to those who are the real underdogs!
As far as I know that car does not belong to this individual. Ironically it does belong to a Jack aka Gakki Farrugia. No idea if there is any relation between the two.
Yip, I think it’s usually on his Range Rover.
Don’t tell me that certain policemen get lectures on Daphne at the police HQ.
Back to your hole, Fleur Marrac, and do yourself a favour and take some good newspapers with you.
I’m flabbergasted about the fact that such individuals, who evidently like an “overt” lifestyle, are allowed to serve in Malta’s secret service. Rule number one for anyone joining the services in Italy is to be as low profile as possible. This guy evidently think he is James Bond: God help you.
Where the hell is Eddy Privitera?
That “chick” is his wife.. And who on earth said it was HIS car?! Plus, can’t you all see it was a wedding?! My god you people have nothing better to do than to bad mouth and gossip about decent people. And for the record, good for you Jack you have a lovely well mannered sweet wife, unlike the wicked witch of oz here who’s only powers are to spread silly rumours and comments like wild fire!
I think this is hilarious , investigative journalism? should that not mean you gather all the facts and not jump to conclusions ? Jack just got married , those photos are photos they took as pre wedding shots ,(the lovely lady is his new bride ) something most people do and I also know for a fact that the Mercedes was LENT to him for his wedding day . Groom is driven to mass in flashy car for big day -HOW DARE HE!
[Daphne – Indeed, Roberta, how dare he. A car like that, lent to a police officer? Who by? Police officers should stay away from being under obligation to the sort of men who pick cars like that. Do you really need a tutorial as to why they shouldn’t be borrowing that kind of car from the kind of person who buys it?]
Sounds to me like Daphne has a little green eyed monster inside and is blurting out little jealous comments veiled as “investigative journalism”. And all this fuss over a car lent for a wedding and some pre wedding shots? People, really, have you got nothing better to do?!
[Daphne – That culture is alien to me, Lollie. I do not share the same values, so I couldn’t possibly be jealous of anything I see in that picture. And I’m trying my best to be civil here.]
This conversation should turn towards the rat who is or was part of the Rapid Intervention Unit or any other section, involved in the operation and leaking highly classified information regarding the matter.
Only reason being he probably is VERY familiar with the green-eyed monster culture. Instead of creating a pantomime out of a good officer’s wedding day. Now THAT is unprofessional!
That kind of car from the kind of people who bought it ? What kind of person is that may I ask ? Maybe he hired the car for day ? Should we all stay away from wealthy men with good taste in cars? So many close minded people who are quick to judge and form assumptions with very few facts.
[Daphne – That’s not a rental car, Roberta. Wealthy men with good taste in cars? Please. And yes, most definitely a police officer should not be socialising with or borrowing cars off ‘wealthy men’. In the normal course of events they would not be friends, so any relationship like that is bound to be suspect.]
Beware all car owners of good taste, beware hard working business owners or people of a certain status or wealth,You are all suspicious people in Daphne’s eyes!! Make sure to keep a safe social distance from us middle class workers as to avoid looking even more suspicious! …hilarious…
[Daphne – I don’t see anybody middle-class in that photograph, and no ‘good taste’ either.]