{"id":18068,"date":"2021-01-06T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/updated-police-superintendent-tests-positive-for-cocaine\/"},"modified":"2021-01-06T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:10:00","slug":"updated-police-superintendent-tests-positive-for-cocaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/updated-police-superintendent-tests-positive-for-cocaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Updated: Police Superintendent tests positive for cocaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: Police Superintendent tests positive for cocaine<\/p>\n<p>A police superintendent tested positive for cocaine after taking a drugs test, MaltaToday reported.<\/p>\n<p>Answering questions on the case from The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/\">Malta<\/a> Independent, the police said that a Police Superintendent had been suspended and that proceedings against him had been launched before the Public Service Commission.<\/p>\n<p>MaltaToday named the person as Superintendent Maurice Curmi, saying that it is understood to have failed the test which was administered at the police HQ.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper said that this result has a high chance of him being dismissed and that he was suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Curmi told&nbsp;Times of Malta&nbsp;that he intends to contest the test result and the suspension.<\/p>\n<p>He said a test performed before the one that resulted positive, and on taken immediately after both resulted negative. Curmi said he had always carried out his police duties &#8220;with utmost dedication and commitment&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\nSource: Independent Malta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.com.mt\/articles\/2021-01-06\/local-news\/Police-Superintendent-tests-positive-for-cocaine-reports-6736229932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Updated: Police Superintendent tests positive for cocaine<\/a><br \/>\n{$excerpt:n}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated: Police Superintendent tests positive for cocaine A police superintendent tested positive for cocaine after taking a drugs test, MaltaToday reported. Answering questions on the case from The Malta Independent, the police said that a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2139],"tags":[1850],"class_list":["post-18068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malta-news","tag-abatement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shopsofmalta.com\/malta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}