Ray Zammit wasn’t fired – where on earth did THAT come from?
He should have been sacked from the force, not demoted to the very senior position of Assistant Police Commissioner
Ray Zammit, the Police Commissioner who starred so brilliantly in this fiasco (“Sparajt zewg tiri – imma mhux fuqu ta.” “U ijja orrajt orrajt.”) is widely reported today as having been fired.
Where did that come from?
Zammit hasn’t been fired. He’s been demoted. The two are totally different. Firing means being kicked out of the police force altogether, as happens with police officers who fail gross in their duties. They are removed altogether.
All that has happened here is that Ray Zammit has been demoted from (acting) Police Commissioner to Assistant Police Commissioner. He’s going nowhere. Not only is he still very much there, but he’s also in an extremely senior position.
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And the crime scene was f*cked.
My thoughts exactly. One wonders what type of ‘assistance’ he can give to the new Police Commissioner who replaced him.
Well I suppose that since films and television are no longer in the same ministry as the police there is no room left for an ‘acting’ Police Commissioner so we’ll hopefully get a real one instead.
Mhux ovvja li ma kecciehx! Ma jmurx ghid li hu kien hdejn Mallia x’hin Mallia cempel lil Joseph u qallu li ma kienux tiri fl-ajru!
Hawwadni ha nifmek. Tal-misthija, jittnejku bil-pubbliku f`wiccu.
Jingle Bells.
Well it helps that you have a minister, excuse me , ex-minister, as a cousin.
It’s just Musical Chairs all around, with a cheat’s seat added.
How will the new Commissioner feel being ‘assisted’ by his predecessor?
And in a not so wonderful bit of irony the United Nation has designated today International Anti-Corruption day http://www.un.org/en/events/anticorruptionday/
Joseph Muscat said that he is not afraid to take action. Did he mean a quick game of musical chairs? He is already talking about a possible other position for Mallia.
As I said before he’s nothing but a scaredy cat clinging to gross incompetence for dear life. If he thinks he can re-train that attitude that we heard out of Zammit in the recording, Muscat must be delusional.
I feel really sorry for every police officer who would like to be professional.
And yes, people’s chins are hitting their chest when they find out about keeping Zammit. Muscat is intent on continuing to dig deeper.
Muscat says he want to eradicate the culture of do what you like, on the heels of 20 months of cronyism and corruption, by taking the hard decisions. Well, Joey look at these.
1. The need to have Sai Mizzi on the public drip is a joke at best, so get rid of her.
2. The casino licence is going to the cheaper offer and Chris Cardona cannot convince us that all is proper in this, so tell us what is this Minister up to.
3. Take away your own “Gonzi PN 500 per week” scandalous pay outs to your own backbenchers.
4. Lead by example and not rent out your personal assets to your government; it’s just not done. And your wife is not Mrs Prime Minister.
5. Do not hold an inquiry, ask Mallia to go, dismiss him because he won’t go, and at the same time try and soften him up with promises of some other public post.
6. Ensure that a Police Commissioner found to have been central in a police cover-up of an attempted murder is made accountable and not simply sent back to his desk.
7. start telling the truth and admit that when you said “konvintissimu” on the time-frame for the power station on the eve of the MEP elections, you were lying.
Do these and you might start to regain some credibility and respect. As things stand you’re just another politician who fell into the trap of thinking he can fool the all the people all of the time.
If Muscat doesn’t trust the police commissioner then why allow him to stay on as assistant commissioner? What a joke. Mallia will have his cousin to undermine and embarrass the police force. Mallia sooner or later will get even with Muscat.
He wasn’t even demoted – he had that position before being appointed ACTING Commissioner. They just appointed a new Commissioner and he went back to his post. But they spin it so differently – spin is all they are expert in.
Poor policewoman who contradicted Ray Zammit’s testimony in front of the three wise men.
It must be noted that Mr Zammit blamed her for misguiding him and she contradicted him and also had a witness. Pour souls.
God knows the hell they will go through since he has remained second in command of the force.
He was not demoted to Asst Commissioner. He was removed from the position of Acting Commissioner of Police to his previous position as one of the three Deputy Police Commissioners. He remains where he started from under Labour.
Exactly. He has always been an assistant commissioner and still is. Not only that. I presume that if the actual commissioner is abroad or indisposed, then, as an assistant commissioner, we might see him again in the role of acting commissioner. Nothing has changed.
It’s far more probable Zammit will fade away into obscurity. He’s probably only months away from retirement age anyway. My guess is that he will go out on sick-leave then disappear altogether. Although the bigger price was paid by Mallia, he was the one to be singled out as the main culprit.
That is a not very dishonourable way for him to choose – and it will eventually help him to really fade away into obscurity without carrying much of a stigma with him.
I agree with you 100 percent. He should have either been allowed to stay or else kicked out of office. The fact that Muscat opted instead to have him demoted to Assistant Police Commissioner clearly shows that our PM has lost his bearings.
They celebrated 200 years of policing this year, and threw the Police back a 1000 years in one fell swoop. Bravo.
Labour banned circuses with animals while they are promoting human circuses.
So even when he is pushed and shoved he drags his feet shouting and screaming and postulates and swears that he will take a decision while hiding behind this or that apron, in the end its just a load of body filler over the rusted areas and a thin spray of paint.
When you think that Joseph Muscat can’t disgust you any more he manages to disgust you again.
Imbaghad Peppi Azzopardi jippretendi li dan l-istess persuna jerga jiftah kaz li ilu mghaluq ghexieren ta’ snin u jsolvih ghax kiteb ktieb.
Jahasra.
The way words are constantly misused by the press in Malta never ceases to amaze. Words have precise meanings and should be used as accurately as possible.
Fleeing a shooter, a perfectly reasonable thing to do, is very different to a hit and run, an illegal activity.
Smashing a car implies far more destruction than hitting a car mirror and perhaps scraping its side.
Being known as l-Iskoċciż (a nickname) is not the same as being a Scotsman (someone from Scotland) or a British citizen.
Being fired and being demoted are two very different actions with very different results.
By randomly bandying about terms like these about, the press makes it easier for the government to manipulate it.
Some journalists really need to get a better grasp of the language they use. Words are their primary tools so they have to know them very well.
Some of them even need to improve their grammar. I’m sick and tired of seeing the past perfect being used where the past simple should be used.
Obviously, none of the above applies to this website.
This is a great disgrace.
He should be fired or arraigned in court for trying to pervert the course of justice.
Everyone forgot about the way Inspector Taliana was treated and arraigned in court just because he did not abide buy the rules of an internal circular within the force.
And what about Sergent Lee Roy Balzan?
How should Ray Zammit be treated buy putting him back to his position?
What about asking for resignation?
Public service commission?
Court?