CSN is calling for an urgent public inquiry, led by 3 judges, into the serious allegations that were raised anonymously by police officers who spoke to the national press regarding the case of the traffic police. This inquiry should investigate all and any case of potential systematic corruption and abuse of power in the past twenty (20) years.
The allegations of the police indicate that they were used as pawns to cover up serious abuse that poses a threat to Maltese democracy – among which to undermine the case of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s assassination. These matters are of the gravest nature and are wholly unsustainable in a democratic society.
The results of this inquiry should be made public in no more than six (6) months and the report should be debated in Parliament. After that, a wholesale radical reform of the Police Corp should be implemented. This isn’t only to modernise the Corp, but so that the culture of corruption and the system that enables the serious abuses that are being alleged be eradicated urgently.
