Where were you Police Commissioner?

Things never seem to go away, especially when they are too obvious to dismiss, and thank goodness for that. General elections are not the court of justice, nor do they absolve politicians and public officials from their wrongdoings, if there are any. Try as they may, as time subsides, politicians and officials will need to face the music for not doing their job properly. No covering up is foolproof. as covering up entails shutting the mouths of honest men and women. And, this is what has happened yesterday, when an ex-FIAU official, Mr. Jonathan Ferris, spoke to the Sunday Times to tell us that the police commissioner did not honour his duties, and because of this he has failed to protect the Republic of Malta from alleged criminality. This was also said by the PN opposition before the general election under the leadership of Dr. Simon Busuttil, and no "Simon falz" campaign, nor do the false accusations of negativity regarding the PN opposition change what is cast in stone i.e. wrongdoers will never set their minds at rest, and their actions will one day be apprehended and sanctioned. Misgivings caused by this lack of commitment by Malta's police force will one day come to haunt the government, and will continue to do so till the very last day of this political cycle.

Questions are already being asked regarding why the police commissioner had failed to follow the normal procedures when the prime minister's chief of staff, Mr. Keith Schembri, was being accused of money laundering. Why weren't the allegations registered at the police registry, and given a CID number, as normally happens? Why did it have to be the leader of the opposition to take the initiative for the allegations to become the subject of a magisterial inquiry? Where was Mr. Lawrence Cutajar in all this? Even if Police Commissioner Cutajar believes that Mr. Schembri is innocent, there is always no good reason not to register the FIAU files, and in this way make them seem not to exist.

Mr. Ferris who worked for years in the Criminal Investigation Department before joining the FIAU is known as being a thorough investigator, who had also once prosecuted his own cousin. All he is asking for is that procedures are kept, and that the police do their job. He said about the Pilatus incident that before having his fenkata, Mr. Cutajar should have followed procedures by phoning the Msida branch to get the inspector to open an investigation. Why weren't procedures kept by Mr. Cutajar? Why did it have to be the prime minister to open an investigations on his wife's and his own financial activities, when it had to be the police commissioner to do the job?

My point isn't on whether Mr. Schembri or Dr. Muscat are innocent or guilty, it is about having our country's institutions working properly as should be the case in a modern democracy. In which civilized country do you have the prime minister opening a magisterial inquiry about himself, and have opposition leader doing the job that should be done by no one other than the Attorney General?
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