Over the past two years, the police have caught 300 people urinating in public, the vast majority being Maltese men, but there were also 24 women.

One of the women was caught on camera on Saturday night as she squatted in front of a parked car in Paceville. The footage, shared on social media, shows the young woman remove her jacket and hand it over to a young man who helps her unzip her playsuit.

She is then seen lowering her one-piece outfit to her knees as she squats and does her business, while the young man waits beside her. At one point, a cat is seen dashing past.

According to police records, 183 people were booked in 2013 – including 14 women – for urinating in public. Last year, the figure dropped to101 people with the number of women standing at 10.

Floriana tops the list for lack of civic pride, with 137 cases, followed by St Julian’s and Paceville, with 43 each

So far, this year, all 16 people fined for using the outdoors as a public convenience were men.

Going through the figures one would notice that the most popular area for such lack of civic pride was Floriana, where 137 people were booked. This was followed by St Julian’s and Paceville, with 43 people, literally, caught with their pants down.

In the vast majority of cases, the offenders were Maltese nationals except for 52 cases who were either foreigners or whose nationality was listed as “not available”. Just last week, a Somali man, 30, was conditionally discharged for a year and fined €100 for peeing on a Swieqi bus stop. As happens in such cases, he was charged with two offences under the Criminal Code: offending public morals and exposing himself in public.

The man, who lived in Gozo, was on a bus from Ċirkewwa to Valletta and at one point evidently need to go to the toilet urgently. When the bus arrived at St Andrew’s, at about 9.10am, he could no longer take it and got off the bus and urinated near the bus stop, to the shock of the passengers nearby.

When he finished his business he tried to get back on the bus to continue his journey to Valletta but was stopped by the bus driver who called the police.