Silvio Scerri – pushing to become Police CEO
Police CEO role created for this sleaze – Silvio Scerri, head of secretariat to Manuel Mallia. The two seem dead set on bringing down the government between them.
This government decided a while back – when I say government, I mean the real prime minister, Manuel Mallia – that the police force should have a chief executive officer as a Police Commissioner is not enough.
The person earmarked for the post until last Tuesday, when it was being talked about in the corridors in parliament, is Silvio Scerri, head of secretariat to the Police Minister. We all know who he is by now.
Well, let’s put it this way. Rather than he being earmarked for the post, it’s more a matter of the post being created for him.
Then, last Wednesday night, this almighty scandal blew up, putting his godfather-like minister under the spotlight of public scrutiny (and anger), getting his driver suspended (but not sacked, still less arrested and arraigned in court) and now he himself is embroiled in it after Malta Today revealed that he rang them when it happened to ‘correct’ their story by insisting they say it was ‘warning shots in the air’.
Will he still be the Police CEO? If Manuel and Silvio get their way on this, their cabinet colleagues may as well commit hara kiri en masse. Anybody with a shred of dignity left in that cabinet should just resign and save what is left of his or her self-respect.
But that’s too much to ask.
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Rest assured that Muscat will tell us that Scerri’s intervention was not malicious either.
Malta, the country where truth is stranger than fiction.
When are the only two ‘decent’ members of the PL cabinet Godfrey and Marlene going to make their opinions felt about this whole horrendous mess?
[Daphne – You have clearly failed to notice that neither Godfrey Farrugia nor Marlene Farrugia is in the cabinet. Godfrey was but no longer is and Marlene never was at all.]
I think by cabinet, Spock was referring to that piece of furniture where Muscat keeps his secrets.
Scerri CEO and Sheehan GM.
Scerri missu jmur ghand l-ex kumissarju Pullicino ghal parir. Dak kien kapaci aktar minn CEO. Zgur itieh idejat tajba kif ghandu jarresta n-nies u jifframjahom.
Indeed it is too much to ask. Dignity, self respect, doing the right thing which would benefit the country over the party – all absent from the prevalent culture and mindset of Maltese politicians on both sides of the divide.
I am to disagree totally with the last part of your assertion.
In this I am not alone, either – tens of thousands (some of them also voting labour in March 2013) can attest to that.
I have been around (active and alert) for quite a few decades, you know – at least from before Mintoff’s 1956 ‘Integration’ proposal.
There are quite a ‘few’ dinos like me still to be found.
This is real and substantial news.
As Police CEO, Silvio Scerri would have access to a wealth of information.
What’s the bigger scheme here?
I don’t trust Malta Today at all! I believe that today’s front page article was a move to shift the blame from Mallia to Scerri, so that Mallia will come out Scot free.
[Daphne – The one person in this sorry narrative who did not come out free is the Scot.]
God forbid if ever people like Silvio Scerri were to have the least say in the management of the Police Force.
He is intruding even now, when all he is is head of secretariat to Manuel Mallia. So imagine what he would be doing if he were to become CEO.
His interference is illegal, criminal. Let it be made clear that being a policeman takes a lot more than meets the eye but being the CEO is a conflicting situation to be in.
It appears that the police force is doomed to have two big shits and no chief at all worthy of the name. A pity, a pity indeed.
At which point will these people lose face and credibility with the public? How much more do the Maltese have to endure? When is enough is enough?
If the police and armed forces fall in the hands of Silvio Scerri, then God save us.
He’s a megalomaniac. I know how his brain works from my work experiences in his trade and from discussions (not nice ones, I tell you) I had with him. He thinks he’s God himself.
I would not hesitate to think, and fear, that he would even consider a coupe d’état. He’s that type.
Becoming the Police CEO is simply ‘legitimizing’ Silvio Scerri’s continuing interference in policing of which he knows nothing but the criminal side from the days gone by with his friend Martin and others on the parvis in Cospicua.