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The country is riddled with thefts, burglaries and now arson!
Everybody seems to agree that the police is not performing as it should. This is a fact which cannot be denied. How is it possible that each and every police inspector, in charge of a town or village in this country, does not know who is actually carrying out these thefts, never mind investigating them? How can the police perform as it should when you hear an officer giving evidence in court saying that after months of having discovered that a crime was serious, he has to go to his superintendent? In other countries, more often than not, it is the police sergeants who carry out major investigations, yet in Malta, you hear of three or more officers prosecuting one single case.
Admittedly, the police has been given a lot of tools to work with but even this should be held against the police force because they do not seem to know how to use them. How is it that in this country, no heads roll under these circumstances?
I come now to the arsons that are going on systematically with terrifying regularity and, yet again, no one is prosecuted. Can the police tell how many people who regularly attend the meetings of the fascist group led by Norman Lowell, have been arrested and investigated? As a layperson, I would have thought that, under the circumstances, the police would be filming these meetings. I say this, only because since the very beginning of these arson attacks, committed on the vehicles of the Jesuits, there was no doubt whatsoever as towards whom the finger should be pointed. And yet, we had other arsons, all clearly indicating the culprits! I would like to remind the Maltese that the last reorganisation of the police force happened in 1956. Since then, only patchwork was carried out.
The next step naturally follows. What is happening in our Courts? How is it that everybody complains, talks about and deplores the sentences being meted out by the Courts every single day? Opinion leaders continue harping on this matter and yet nothing happens! The last straw that in my opinion should have broken the camel’s back, was the recent sentence meted out to the bus driver who defiled a twelve-year-old. He was sentenced to seven months imprisonment by a magistrate who, until recently, was himself one of those Advocates General who were prosecuting these cases.
No wonder the police are not interested and lose heart!
I now come to the real culprit in all this: the Deputy Prime Minister Dr Tonio Borg. He is the minister in charge of this mess and yet, only silence, is his reply to all these complaints by everyone, I would like to ask him, what is he doing about this disaster but am also positive that he is doing absolutely nothing! He does talk about the successes of other ministers, but he never talks about his ministry. Is he still living on this planet? Or is it that his only interest is in upholding Catholic morals and nothing else?
Should not the Prime Minister ask him to resign and appoint someone whoever has the gall to face these problems?
C. Borg
Mosta
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