Labour denounces shorter police recruitment course
Police recruitment training course cut down to four months for ‘GonziPN’s political exigencies’
Labour shadow minister for home affairs Michael Falzon poured cold water over the recruitment of 95 new police officers today, saying the recruitment course had been cut down to four months to coincide with the electoral campaign.
"While wishing all these new members success, one cannot ignore the undeniable fact that the police corps has been overtaken by political and electoral exigencies of 'GonziPN'," Michael Falzon said.
The recruitment course is traditionally nine to 12 months long, but this year's intake course was cut down to four months.
"All claims by 'GonziPN' that the training inside the police academy was going to take its course appear to have been put paid. It is clear that what's more important is the general elections. There was also a negligible number of women police officers in this year's intake - one does not wonder at the state of demorilisation that exists inside the corps at the way decisions are being made."