Former acting police commissioner Ray Zammit was yellow-carded by the Justice Minister but the government yesterday shunned the Opposition’s call for his removal.

Owen Bonnici said he warned Mr Zammit “not to repeat” the behaviour criticised in an inquiry by former judge Michael Mallia that exposed dangerous liaisons between police officers and the business world.

The Nationalist Party called for Mr Zammit’s immediate removal as acting prisons director and CEO of a newly-created wardens’ agency following the damning report.

But yesterday was also characterised by an eerie silence as Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela and Police Commissioner Michael Cassar chose not to comment on the inquiry that cast a shadow on the police corps.

Read more in the Times of Malta.

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