Comments on: Manuel & Silvio Police update: training session goes fantastically wrong

By: Carlsten Xuereb

Carlsten Xuereb — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 15:04:09 +0000

To add more to Mrs. Rodo’s comment above (I was one of the hikers):

The Police Academy addressed our concerns with utmost professionalism. This was quite an unfortunate event and I’m quite sure that extra care would be given in the future to avoid such incidents.

From our end this is a ‘closed case’ and we’re happy with the final outcome.

By: Annette Rodo

Annette Rodo — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 08:09:21 +0000

My update as posted on The Salott:

UPDATE – We have been contacted by the Police Academy who went out of their way to express their sincerest apologies for the situation. We were really surprised by the amount of concern they showed for what happened and appreciate their effort in assuring us that never had it crossed their mind that there could have been any hikers in the area at that time of night. All’s well that ends well – Case Closed :)

By: Lomax

Lomax — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 20:59:18 +0000

I’m howling with laughter – though it is rather tragic. I mean, if the man dispatched to act as an aggressor is a police officer, the state of our police force is sorry indeed if he is not capable of distinguishing police trainees from ordinary citizens.

By: Redneck

Redneck — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 18:07:54 +0000

I followed the original thread on Facebook. What I found interesting is that upon realising his error, the perpetrator never stopped to check that his victims were OK. He just ran off.

Given that this was a policeman training police trainees, it seems like message being given is that one’s mistakes should be hidden.

By: TROY

TROY — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 16:52:40 +0000

Malta Police are now doing taxi services to and from church schools. Phone 21224001.

By: Rumplestiltskin

Rumplestiltskin — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 14:09:02 +0000

If this happened in the States where many carry firearms for personal protection there probably would have been a very dead, pepper-spraying, masked, white-clothed, police recruit trainer.