Raymond Zammit reappointed as Chairman of LESA Advisory Board

Former Police Commissioner Raymond Zammit has been reappointed as Chairman of the Local Enforcement System Agency Advisory Board by the Justice Ministry.

The agency had replaced the local enforcement system and is part of a government decision to centralise the local enforcement system in an attempt to boost warden efficiency.

Zammit’s original appointment at the time was quite controversial, given that it is still linked with enforcement.

Ray Zammit had been dismissed as acting head of the police force following the Paul Sheehan (former driver of Manuel Mallia when he was Home Affairs Minister) shooting incident.

Sheehan allegedly fired his weapon twice in November 2014, towards a vehicle which was driven by Stephen Morrison Smith, after the latter collided with the minister’s car (when Minister Manuel Mallia was in charge of Home Affairs) while it was parked in Gzira.

Last legislature, on a separate issue, the PN had called for Zammit’s resignation from the LESA post following the publication of a report of an inquiry carried out by judge Michael Mallia on former Police Inspector Daniel Zammit’s (his son) involvement in the investigation of the murder of Neville Baldacchino.

The report found that Inspector Zammit did not behave ethically in the investigation of the murder. Judge Mallia also found that the behaviour of Daniel Zammit’s brother Roderick, a serving police inspector, and his father Ray, a former acting Police Commissioner and later deputy commissioner until he retired in May 2015, was improper.

Government has now reappointed Zammit to the LESA Advisory Board.

The other members of the board are Kevin Farrugia, Godwin Vassallo and Margaret Baldacchino. Paul Bugeja has been appointed as secretary.