Footage submitted to Malta Gone Wild shows an incident of apparent public urination in a Sliema residential street at approximately 4:31am, just around two minutes on foot from the Sliema Police Station.
The footage appears to show two men stopping in the street, with both urinating in public, including close to residential properties.
While this may not involve violence or an altercation, behaviour like this is still part of the wider problem of late-night antisocial behaviour affecting residential areas of Sliema, particularly during the busy summer months.
For residents living nearby, waking up to people shouting, loitering, urinating in the street or behaving inconsiderately outside their homes in the early hours should not simply be accepted as normal.
What makes this incident particularly striking is the location.
The incident took place at approximately 4:31am and only a couple of minutes’ walk from the Sliema Police Station. This raises reasonable questions about the level of visible policing and enforcement taking place during the hours when residents frequently report antisocial behaviour.
Sliema is a busy town and an important tourist destination. Nobody expects complete silence throughout the night. However, there is a considerable difference between normal city activity and people treating residential streets as public toilets in the early hours of the morning.
Residents should be able to expect a reasonable level of cleanliness, respect and enforcement in the streets surrounding their homes.
Questions that need answering
- Are regular police patrols being carried out through Sliema’s residential streets during the early hours?
- What action is taken when individuals are found urinating in public?
- Are known late-night problem areas being actively monitored during the summer months?
- If this behaviour is occurring only minutes away from the police station, is the current level of enforcement sufficient?
Sliema residents should not have to accept public urination and repeated antisocial behaviour at 4am as an unavoidable consequence of living in one of Malta’s busiest localities.
📅 Incident date: 24 July 2026
🕓 Approximate time: 4:31am