Commissioner orders internal inquiry into CID arraignment blunder

The Police Commissioner has ordered an internal inquiry to establish what led investigators to wrongly accuse a man of committing a hold-up. Peter Paul Zammit said he has given the inquiry board two weeks to draw up a report on the mistake made by police officers from the Criminal Investigation Department. The CID officers wrongly charged Darryl Borg of a hold-up at The Convenience Shop, a mistake that came to light two days later when Inspector Elton Taliana from the district police charged another man. Mr Borg spent two days in custody as a result of the mistake. An investigation by the Police Board pinned most of the blame on Inspector Taliana for failing to inform his superiors of his findings, which could have led to Mr Borg’s earlier release from prison. Full story in The Times of Malta and timesofmalta.com Premium.