Police in the St Julian’s district, which includes the Paceville trouble spot, are stretched so thin they have very little time to investigate the flood of reports that come in every day.

About 6,000 reports have already been filed this year in the district – an increase of about 1,000 over the first eight months of 2013 – but just two policemen are assigned to investigations and patrol, sources told Times of Malta.

“It has become a normal occurrence to have queues of people waiting to file a report, even at 5am,” one police source said on condition of anonymity.

Read more in Times of Malta.

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