Manuel Mallia Disastergate
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December 15, 2014 at 10:29pm
The new Police Minister said in parliament, in reply to a question which his opposite number Jason Azzopardi put to him, that his predecessor had reinstated 58 former policemen aged between 45 and 60 in the police corps.
One of them had left the police force 28 years ago, in 1986, and another 15 years ago, in 1999.
In all, Mallia reinstated 72 ex policemen. They are all now on the police payroll with no training to bring them up to scratch. Exactly what are they doing?
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Disastergate? This sets the standard for an omnishambles.
Daphne, did you asked what they are doing? Can I speculate that perhaps they’ll be good enough to keep an eye on the ballot boxes during elections?
They are plants, reporting to their masters, like a lot of other government employees.
One can only speculate about what incentive they were given to lure them away from their job or from retirement.
As one 65er or older told me himself, “I can have a chat while inside the police station, while getting paid for it. It was so boring at home”. This is true.
Road signs.
Crash course at ITS.
They did a great job at letting a man being investigated for rape escape from custody. It was probably as easy as pie.
About a week ago I saw one of the reinstated policeman in his uniform, and that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
For a second I went down memory lane and I was back in the 1980s with that same face. Little by little all will be lost and the new generation will have to go through what we went through at those times. Unbelievable but true.
Yes, I remembered this detail when Muscat and the Labour Party were going on about how what we have seen is the sorry state the police has been reduced to because of previous administrations.
Previous administrations my foot. They know as well as anyone that it was thanks to the Labour Party that any respect and professionalism disintegrated and the police were feared by the whole country, or at least by those who were hiding a colour TV in their home or contraband blenders.
Maltese people of my generation and the generation above me think that Malta has always been this way. That our disorganised and slightly inept system, police, political and the civil service to name a few, is typical of a Mediterranean country and it has always been this way. They might be surprised to know that it hasn’t. There was a time when things were much more orderly, even after the British left.
Yes, there was a time when things worked the way they should, and anyone who as much as suggested that they should relax and chill out and stop being professional because we all know each other was seen as a threat to the dignity of the establishment they were part of.
But what happens during a corrupt and dictatorial regime is that every institution once held in high regard is disenchanted. It no longer means anything and what was once stable and dependable is a joke.
That disenchantment is very difficult to get rid of for many reasons, and no one knows that more than the PN.
It has taken them many years to get to a state where the behaviour we have witnessed is actually met with disapproval. 25 years ago, had this happened, people would have either approved or just said “This is Malta”. How I hate that phrase.
And now along come Mallia and brings back a load of unprofessional and untrained people into the force, and this is all the PN’s fault, that the training given to the police is of very low standards which is all the PN’s fault. Nonsense.
The people involved in the cover up were all policemen the Labour Party had appointed. When the PN were shocked at the choices, they were laughed at and told “U alma how brainwashed you are!” Again, we were not brainwashed, we were right.
In fact, in the recordings you could almost tell when a policeman who had not been appointed by the PL was speaking because he was shocked and constantly instructed Sheehan to do what was legal.
Muscat had better not even think of pinning the current state of the force on the PN. It is he and Mallia that have turned it into a joke, bringing back men who probably don’t even know how to carry out an arrest.
One of them is the only policeman in Attard. His work comprises opening the police station in the morning and then sitting inside or taking a short walk to the church. Reminds me of those porters taking care of apartment blocks in some second grade Italian comedy film.
Meanwhile, at the St Julian’s police station … http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141215/local/rape-suspect-escapes-police-custody.548435
Unless, of course, this is a Nardu Debono-style “incident”, where the police would have us believe he escaped when really, they killed him. Nothing would surprise me anymore.
Desaparicido a la Pinochet ?
The new minister’s bobbies have just allowed an alleged rapist to escape from their custody. Not a good augur methinks.
Allo Allo. For a minute I thought I read ‘boobies’.
You have to admit that this government has found some really creative ways of putting thousands of cronies on the public payroll. They’re rivalling PM Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici in 1986.
This does not take into account the formation of the Rapid Intervention Union and the transfers given to non-Labour policemen.
It is unbelievable that an alleged rapist managed to escape while being interrogated.
If it is at all possible, we need to admit that problems with the police force are much, much worse that we thought.
This can not be protecting the boys, so what is it?
Silver surfers to silver service.
What are the exhumed past members of the police doing?
They are being taught how to use side arms properly, hitting kites when firing warning shots at the sky and drivers moving away in cars when they aim at him (“Sparajtlu!”).
Thank God Commissioner De Gray is not alive to see this mess. I am sure he is tossing and turning in his grave.
They must have needed some dishwashers to support the waiter service.
An interesting twist to the Valenzia Report:
“The … new Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela … said that today he would be restarting the dialogue with human rights NGOs (which had been halted by his predecessor).”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20141216/local/alternatives-to-migrants-detention-by-july-says-government.548515
Times of Malta’s reporters do not pick on the main item of news: that Mallia halted discussions with the NGOs.
This is called milking the cow.
Mallia’s Keystone Cops!
Prosit ghalih Leli Mallia, x’korp hallilna.
Tghid issa ma jigiex Joseph u jtih Gieh ir-Repubblika tal-froga li ghamel fi 22 xahar li dam ministru jippoppa sidru.