So why did they appoint him in the first place? The consequences were not hard to predict.
They sack John Rizzo immediately they are elected to government. They bring retired police officer Peter Paul Zammit, by then working as a notary, into the police force and simultaneously make him police commissioner.
Instantly, he announces to the press that John Dalli will not be prosecuted. He then sets about providing a catering and waiter service at Girgenti Palace for a conference dinner, with the full collusion and enthusiastic agreement of the Police Minister (ghax niffrankaw il-flus, hi).
And now, apparently, it’s bye-bye Peter Paul.
A government source has been doing some leaking to Malta Today and The Malta Independent: the government isn’t happy with the police commissioner. They don’t say exactly why they’re not happy. He’s committed no resignation offence – he’s just not “delivering”.
That’s odd. I thought he had delivered the one thing he was appointed for, and it’s not catering.
Sounds like a stitch-up to me: if it weren’t a stitch-up, they wouldn’t be briefing against him to the media. They would just ask him to leave and then tell the media in a proper press statement.
I don’t think they’re getting rid of him because he’s not fit for purpose. It’s not as though this government gives the slightest damn about whether any of its appointees is fit for purpose or not.
No. I think they’re getting rid of Peter Paul Zammit because a more influential Taghna Lkoller is agitating for his job. Mr Audrey ‘Labour Billboard’ Harrison, perhaps – the senior police officer who arrested Cyrus Engerer’s father Chris on cannabis offences, because he was so keen to help the evil Nationalists persecute him.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-06-29/news/tmi-was-right-police-commissioner-will-go-5661392896/
So in theory there is still a chance that John Dalli will be prosecuted, once a new Cops Commissioner is in place. Or am I dreaming?
You ARE dreaming. Do you think the new Commissioner could be anyone not Taghna Lkoll? John Dalli is the ultimate untouchable. He won’t even be prosecuted under a PN administration in 2018 or 2023, mark me.
Not dreaming! Having nightmares, more likely.
Can Joseph Muscat appoint John Dalli as Police Commissioner?
Yes, this is a nightmare.
Typical Labour. He did the dirty work for them and now they’re not happy because he’s not delivering. End of the catering service.
There must have been a cockroach in one of the iced buns.
It’s the Mintoff saga starting all over again in the police force.
Mintoff ran through one de Gray, two Bencinis, one Enoch Tonna and one Cachia before he found the one after his own (and KMB’s) heart. That was the Police Commissioner under whose command police torture during interrogations became rampant, unsolved violence by MLP thugs always went unpunished, gazzeted police officers finished in prison for crimes while holding office with the list being topped by the Police Commissioner himself.
As one grassroots MLP supporter and insider told a friend of mone: Joseph Muscat is a lemon juicer. He first uses you then dumps you into the bin.
Nuxellina must be very disappointed seeing police commissioner Peter Paul Zammit going. She always found him helpful when she needed to jump the queue.
It will be just a different phone number.
“Not delivering” for Labour probably means that he is refusing to do more dirty work.
Being in “labour” without “delivering” could have nasty consequences.
Correction:
Being in labour without delivering according to the LP evil agenda would have nasty consequences.
Muscat appointed Pietru Pawl Zammit hastily as Commissioner of Police to put a spanner in the police investigation of John Dalli. That having been accomplished, both Dalli and Zammit have served their purpose,they have been squeezed dry like a lemon and both can be safely discarded in the LP skip.
Next one, please!
I am sure no one is really surprised. Labour nominees must deliver what the regime wants them to deliver. If they just fail, or if somebody more likely to deliver is found, they are just ousted and replaced.
Nothing new. And we never learn! Poor Malta.
Peter Paul Zammit for chairman of ITS Malta.
Someone has got to protect those siestas.
My feeling is that the next commissioner will surely be the person who was initially approached for the post but refused to carry out the orders which Zammit eventually did.
Having hit the ground running, he may have had a bit of time to think since. U Muscat sab li PPZ mhux ‘ahdar’ biz-xejjed ghall-iskopijiet tieghu (sorry, but it sounds so much better in Maltese).
Now they’ll install a proper stop-at-nothing villain to do their bidding.
Dan il-Gvern hekk… l-ewwel juzak imbghad jarmik.
Gawdi poplu la trid hekk
U dan tal-qalba…. ahseb u ara ghalina l-popolin x’hemm lest!
Guzeppi tal-Mosta
kullhadd jafni!
One little dicky bird sitting on a wall,
Half named Peter, half named Paul.
Service rendered to us all, now
Fly away Peter, fly away Paul
What about Manuel Mallia’s cousin? Deputy Comissioner Ray Zammit? Seems more likely to me!
I heard that he was totally against the introduction of the SWAT squad, who will not be under his direct control.He surely remembers the SMU and their achievements.
Malta needs a change in the constitution. The nomination of police commissioner must be approved by the Opposition of the day. So do the chairmanships of government companies.
My God, can you imagine this man attending NATO meetings? Colleagues round the table would most certainly be impressed with this CV.
http://www.foreign.gov.mt/default.aspx?MDIS=354&NWID=5035
there once was a notary and pete was his name
when joseph was elected he shot into fame
but now his work is done
time left for him there’s none
bye bye farewell to his iced bun
time for others to have some fun
And here it goes.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140703/local/police-commissioner-expected-to-step-down-deputy-commissioner-ray-zammit-to-take-over.526201