So – are we now going to start helping police officers across busy roads?
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June 15, 2014 at 7:38pm
Times of Malta reports that long-retired former police officers have been brought back into the force on reserve. Some of them, the newspaper reports, are in their early 70s.
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No training is required?! Does he mean to say that since these people left, nothing has changed in the force? Are they computer literate or do the police not use computers? Are they culturally sensitive? How many years have these officers been away from the force?
It repeatedly strikes me that it is a particular trait of the Labour Party and its operatives to treat people just as a pair of hands. The perfect example of ‘itfahhom hemm imbaghad naraw’. The only requirement is that they tow the party line. Forget ability and suitability for the job and as a consequence forget about the needs, rights and dignity of the service receivers AND forget about the waste of tax payers’ money.
Now they have to repay their loyal supporters for their votes. Meritocracy my ass
How many of these are ex SMU? How many of these were present at the infamous Tal-Barrani or Rabat mass meetings? What is this country coming to? Ours is not a government, it is a plague of locusts.
This calls for a sitcom on the lines of ‘Dad’s Army’.
One presumes that they will be falling over themselves to help the public – literally.
I have it from reliable sources that this division is going to be called ‘Starsky and Crutch’
“The 70 years old ‘new recruits’ will strengthen the ‘police farce’ with immediate effect as no training is required” says peter paul the commissioner.
These persons probably retired about 20 years ago, after presumably serving at least 25 years as police officers.
Peter Paul the commissioner, however, seems not to realize that a space of 20 years has brought about major changes in the organization and equipment within the Force itself and also changes in legislation and regulations – not to mention, by the way, improvements in the catering systems.
And not considering, of course, that a septuagenarian no longer has the agility of mind and body of a 20-year old.
But, as the Police Commissioner says, ‘no training is required’. So that’s all right then, time and money saved.
Malta Police Corpse will really fit now.
The info I have is that these old geezers were promised this in order to beef up their pension when they retire.
Could this be a photo of some of them when they originally formed a proud part of the Force?
http://therecedinghorizons.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/the_bow_street_runners.jpg
I think they were referred to as ‘The Bow Street Runners’
This is the second Corps of dad`s army the Police has had under Labour. The other term was in the 1970s when retiring officers from the Admiralty Constabulary were recruited to administer good order at the gates of Luqa airport.
In England part-time policing offers jobs for the young and the student who in the course of studies would need some sort of subsistence. They would still be engaged after fitness tests and courses in the administration of laws in the process of keeping the good order and the public peace. None would be offered a rocking chair and a spittoon only to be called granddad.
Gvern tas-second hand.
If the commissioner puts them through training he’ll kill half of them…..and anyway at 70+ years, they probably remember all they had learnt at the academy as if it was yesterday.
Funniest piece of news I’ve heard all day. I don’t really know if I feel like laughing or crying…..
What academy?
I know one who is obese and does not stand on his feet except with difficulty. Wow we are really proud of them. We can put our mind at rest, that there are police on whom we can rely.
and some will be taking care of the ballot boxes when the time comes
Dad’s Police Force.
Has the police force got problems recruiting intelligent young men?
The police force needs fresh blood, this lot will bring back bad old habits.
ara jergghux jithajru Bonello,Pico,Pullicino u l-bella kumpanija!
A clever move indeed.
It will help in a big way to reduce the waiting list for a bed at St Vincent De Paule Residence aka Has-Serh.
They can use the beds at Police GHQ in Floriana and the WPCs can be utilised as nurses and carers.
No training is required? The Commissioner of Police must be joking.
In most cases members of professional associations overseas who have been retired from practice for over three years would not be allowed to start to practice their profession again without sitting for and passing professional examinations, plus undertaking training in diverse areas.
By definition any police officer in his 70s must have been retired at least 10 years. Many would have been retired many more years, since, I believe, policemen can retire well before their 60s if they have the requisite years of service. By definition they are therefore not suitable to serve (except perhaps at a clerical, desk job) without extensive re-training – not to mention the likely physical inadequacies.
When the government introduces such a gimmick, the people should prepare themselves for something very serious.
There is an easier way of tackling the problem. Raise the police retirement age to 61.
I think we need to know exactly how these people are being paid and what happens with their special police pensions. To my knowledge policemen can retire after 25 years of service which means that some of these police men must have been retired for quite a long time also so I’m surprised they do not need any training.
That wouldn’t say much about the police force’s advancement over the years.