Former police commissioner Lawrence Cutajar led a “defective” selection process for the promotion of assistant commissioners in 2016, a fresh Ombuds
A 2016 police selection process for the promotion of superintendents to the post of assistant commissioner was vitiated, and a fresh call ought to be issued, the ombudsman has ruled.
Ombudsman Anthony Mifsud said that the man behind the decision to favour certain individuals over others was former police commissioner Lawrence Cutajar.
He led “a parody of a selection process” and chose people promoted to the new grade on the basis of personal trust rather than according to the manual on which such a process should be based.
The ombudsman was ruling in a case by Superintendent Raymond D’Anastas, who cried foul over the fact that he had been discarded for promotion despite his four decades of service and an impeccable track record.