Update3 - Police show the press around their stables

The Commissioner of Police this afternoon showed journalists around the police stables in Marsa to counter footage shown on One TV's TX programme yesterday which showed the place to be a shambles. "I was shocked when I saw the footage," Commissioner John Rizzo told the press. He said he had immediately investigated and found that the footage was taken four months ago when maintenance works were under way. Tiles had been removed and fans were not in their place because of the works, Mr Rizzo said. He said he regretted that a policeman had allowed in a journalist to take that footage in the dead of night. "That policeman should be ashamed" he said. He said the policeman had also harmed the horse shown in the footage as it was startled and woken up when the camera light was cast on it. That horse, he said, was a mare that was between 22 and 24 years old and had since been put down. Her condition was the result of age, Mr Rizzo said, because the police did not put down their animals because of age and kept and treated them 'like colleagues' for as long as they could eat, drink and stand. They were only put down on directions of a Vet. Asked about rats shown in the footage, Mr Rizzo...