The Royal Gibraltar Police (RGP) investigation into the allegation that ‘whistle-blowers’ were incentivised to provide evidence to the McGrail Inquiry “has not uncovered any evidence that meets the threshold for criminal prosecution for Misconduct in Public Office.”
The GSD says it is “bizarre” that Mr Picardo “has tried to deflect criticism over his stunning failure” to deliver housing projects as he promised them in 2017 to a “scattergun blame-game of the GSD for the past.” The party says that “knee jerk defence” of the Government to criticism is “hollow and transparent for all to see.”
“At any one time, we could be listening to a victim of domestic abuse or taking details over the radio of a suspected drunk driver and, at the same time, we know that there’s a lady downstairs who wants to report that she has lost her mobile phone,” says PC Kasmira Kingsley who is one of the RGP’s Command and Dispatch officers.
Action for Housing have made public a letter sent to the Minister for Housing:
Dear Minister,
In April 2021 we both appeared on a GBC radio programme, presented by Ros Astengo, in which you stated that you had enough housing stock to meet the needs of all those applicants on the Government Housing waiting list(s). At the time, we put this assertion very much in doubt, given the long delays in accommodating those on the waiting list.