Malta arrests half its traffic police

Malta arrests half its traffic police

More than half of Malta’s traffic police have been arrested, authorities have said. Around 30 members of Malta’s traffic police force — from a total of about 50 — have been accused of fraudulently filing for hundreds of hours of overtime over at least a three-year period, according to police. Some of the officers are also suspected of misappropriating fuel and using it for their own private vehicles. Malta’s head of police stepped down earlier this year following a backlash over the investigation into the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a journalist who investigated corruption in the country’s elite circles. Motorists have said there were noticeably fewer police directing traffic on Tuesday.

A man was stopped by the police around 2 AM. The officer asked him where he was going at that time of night. The man replied, “I’m on my way to a lecture about alcohol abuse, smoking, and staying out late and the effects they all have on the human body.”
The officer then asked, “Really? Who’s giving that lecture at this time of night?”
The man replied, “That would be my wife.”

A traffic cop went through the trouble of putting a note on my windshield to let me know I positioned my car correctly.
It said ‘parking fine’ so that was nice.

An officer comes upon a man clearly under the influence of some illegal substance. He says to the man, “We’re going to have to give you a drug test.”
Without hesitation, the man replies, “Cool, which drugs are we testing?”

A tourist asks a man in uniform, “Are you a policeman?”
“No, I am an undercover detective.”
“So why are you in uniform?”
“Today is my day off.”