The Home Affairs Ministry is being accused of “decapitating” experienced police officers and replacing them with party loyalists in a “useless massacre” of the unit responsible for stemming hunting illegalities.

More officers have come forward to claim that the Administrative Law Enforcement Unit (ALE) has been stripped of its experience in handling wildlife crime.

According to sources, eight of its experienced officers have been transferred to district police stations – half of them had more than a decade of experience in the field and were all Nationalist supporters, except for one who is part of the President’s security entourage.

Senior police officers told The Sunday Times of Malta this was not the right way forward for effective law enforcement.

Read more in The Sunday Times of Malta.

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