‘Boarded out’ police inspector is son of Assistant Commissioner Ray ‘OK Siehbi’ Zammit

Daniel Zammit

OK siehbi? Former acting police commissioner Ray Zammit

The police inspector who was ‘boarded out’ of the force (a term used when you are pensioned off before time because of illness or disability) and then put on the payroll at Enemalta Corporation with a salary of 60,000 euros, is Daniel Zammit.

His father, Ray ‘OK Siehbi’ Zammit, is an assistant commissioner and was acting Police Commissioner between the resignation of Peter Paul Zammit and his own debacle with a shoot-out involving one of his men, Paul Sheehan, and the Police Minister for whom he was both chauffeur and babysitter.

Daniel Zammit is a regular at the Ta’ Qali gym, and a reader who works out there tells me that up until last week Zammit was listing more than 100kg on the bench press.

“What medical condition has he actually got – impotence?” this reader said. “Also, if he is boarded out then he is getting a police pension as well as his 60K a year from Enemalta.”

Daniel Zammit applied to be boarded out on April 16 and the matter was decided in record time on April 21. Then Enemalta Corporation took him on immediately.

Zammit was the prosecuting officer when Enemalta Corporation discovered that many of its smart meters had been tampered with.

He told the court that he wouldn’t be taking action against those who fiddled with the meters because the government would be giving them some kind of amnesty. I quote a report in The Malta Independent of February last year:

Police investigators have not interrogated consumers allegedly involved in the case of tampered smart meters because they might be given a kind of amnesty, a political decision taken by the government.