‘not a single shot of a police officer being citizen-friendly.’

Nice oxymoron, well done.

Let me put it this way: if you knew of a crime, would you go to the Police? Or would you send an email to Daphne?

Ordinary, decent citizens no longer trust these louts in uniform.

The Mintoff plan was to emulate the 1919 incidents by irresponsibly bringing the Maltese into direct confrontation with British troops and producing ‘martyrs’ who Mintoff could then be able to parade in furtherance of his political ends.

Mintoff had instructed the police manning crowd barricades outside Auberge de Castille, then General Headquarters of the British Army, to refrain from any action against the Labour Party rent-a-mob, thus allowing the barricades to be overrun by the crowd and forcing British troops to act in defence with inevitable casualties on the Maltese side.

Mintoff’s plan was only thwarted by then Commissioner Vivian de Gray who went over Mintoff’s head directly to the Governor. When it came to the crunch, the police acted according to their duty, knocked the stuffing out of the cowardly MLP mob, and put an end to the disturbances.

Under subsequent administrations led by Mintoff and Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici, the police force descended into increasing abuse and disrepute, actively protecting criminals and murderers, covering up murders committed in Police Headquarters, violently disrupting legitimate protest demonstrations, and harassing and arresting innocent persons.

Police Minister Manwel Mallia has now approved and endeavours to justify the re-engagement of retired police officers who were in service in the mid-1980s, that is, the time when abuse and criminality within the police force was at its worst.

The Malta Police, under the premiership of Joseph Muscat, is continuing the downward slide where Mintoff, then Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici left off.

That would feature in a video prepared by the German police.

And nothing about the arrests of ‘skinny-dippers’ and of those who disturb my ‘siesta.’

I agree with you fully.

Looks like a trailer for a James Bond movie. The video transmits aggression and power.

This is the police, not the army.

Isn’t the police supposed to promote an image of being friendly to the public?