Former Chief Probation Officer saddened at degeneration of public service

Former chief probation officer Cecil Murray yesterday bemoaned the state of the public service, saying he is deeply saddened by what it has degenerated to today.

“It leaves much to be desired,” he said.

The well-spoken 90-year-old who served in the civil service for more than 30 years beginning in the 1940s, said that many aspects of the services offered now are very pathetic, as he sought to compare the two periods.

He was at the time testifying at the public hearings of the Public Service Commission of Inquiry (CoI) at the