Lawrence Cutajar
Lawrence Cutajar (born March 5, 1960 in Luqa) is a Maltese policeman, and served as commissioner of the Malta Police Force from 2016 to 2020. Biography Cutajar read for a Diploma in Law and Administration at the University of Malta. In February 1979 he joined the Malta Police Force as a Constable. He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant in September 1983, before graduating as an Inspector a year later. Cutajar achieved the rank of Superintendent in 2000. Throughout his career, Cutajar worked mainly in district policing, serving also with other sections of the Police such as the Command and Control Room, Airport Security, Vice Squad and Intelligence. In February 2014, Cutajar was appointed Assistant Commissioner in charge of the Police Immigration Branch. On April 27, 2016 he was promoted to head the Police as Acting Commissioner. On August 1, 2016 Prime Minister Joseph Muscat officially appointed him as Commissioner of Police. Following the handling of Egrant and Pilatus Bank investigations since 2016, Cutajar was called on to resign by opposition and civil society groups multiple times. He claimed that the only time he thought about resigning was when a police constable was grievously injured in a hit-and-run incident