What do the police have to do with it?

You know, I really can’t understand why the Nationalist Party is asking the government to report the matter of flawed hospital concrete to the police, and why the Labour Party is talking of criminal liability.

This strikes me as being entirely a civil matter, with no scope for involvement of the police.

If I ask a contractor to replace the ceiling of my house, and 10 years down the line cracks appear because he has skimped on the concrete while charging me for good concrete, I don’t go to the police because it’s not a criminal matter.

I sue him in civil court.

You would go to the police if there is corruption, and that would mean a full-scale investigation into the affairs of John Dalli and his brother Bastjan in 1995/1996.

I don’t think that’s going to happen any time soon, and it’s not because they’ll have no case to make after all this time.

The police had no case to make against Ray Ferris of Enemalta, and still they prosecuted him, his name was splashed all over the newspapers, he was made to go through hell, only for the court to be scathing about why all that should have happened.