Peter Paul Zammit has resigned from his position of Head of Security for International Events.

Speaking with this newsroom, the former Commissioner said that he has done what he had to do and is now going back to his private legal practice.

The resignation comes just 12 weeks before Malta is set to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, which will be presided by Queen Elizabeth.

The CHOGM meeting is set to take place in November.

“CHOGM is a lot of people, what I had to do is practically finished," he told The Malta Independent.

He stressed that his job was simply coordinating the process, and when CHOGM actually came around he would have been sitting around doing nothing. “That job must be done by the security themselves”.

Mr Zammit said that he had in fact tendered his resignation three months ago, and is now finishing off his resignation period. His resignation is being made public today.

In comments to this newsroom a couple of months ago, Mr Zammit was asked whether he would be handling the security of the EU-Africa Summit, which will be held in early November. Mr Zammit had said – “Let’s say I may be involved, like I may be involved with CHOGM”.

Peter Paul Zammit found himself at the centre of a scandal earlier this year. An inquiry into the former Commissioner’s decision to drop the charges against Josmar Agius, a man who had allegedly assaulted the four officers, found Mr Zammit acted ‘on his own’ when he stopped police proceedings against him.

Speaking with the Malta Independent in an interview last May, he said - “It is police practice that, where an allegation is made which disputes criminal charges, one does not allow court procedure to continue. The practice is called ‘staying of proceedings’. First you suspend proceedings and the withdrawal, if needed, would occur later. Suspending the proceedings was the first phase. We would then see how a case would develop and decide how to proceed,” he explained.

Mr Zammit was appointed police commissioner soon after the Labour Party was elected to government, but relinquished the post a year later.