Monday's staff sitting of the Chisinau city hall was marked by a new episode in the dispute between mayor Dorin Chirtoaca and police deputy commissar Iacob Gumenita. The two officials swapped harsh words in connection to the April 7 violent events, Info-Prim Neo reports. When asked by the mayor why he had not attended the last staff sittings, Gumenita said he resolved not to “in order to exclude shows and cases of hysteria” that he accused the mayor of making. “Now that the emotions have settled, I came to the sitting to further cooperate, and the police's attitude toward the local public administration is business-like,” the police deputy commissar said. In his turn, the mayor said that such a situation when the police turns out for sittings when it wants is possible in Moldova only. “This is Moldova and this is the legal frame – the Interior Ministry appoints the commissar and the deputy commissar. You should have been fired long time ago,” he told Gumenita, accusing him of incompetence. Dorin Chirtoaca was neither happy he had been prevented from entering the cells confining the youths accused of devastating the buildings of the Presidency and Parliament on April 7. “You were allowed to do what the law allows. You got in, expressed yourself, what's the problem?” Iacob Gumenita responded, accusing Chirtoaca of “not telling anyone about his intention to visit the commissariats” and of “not calling in advance to learn whether the leader can receive him.” “I could not receive you since I was in a sitting, that is why the general commissar received you. What are you unhappy about?” Gumenita asked the Chisinau mayor. He advised the mayor he had better visited the policemen injured by protesters, but Dorin Chirtoaca said he was not allowed into the hospital of the Interior Ministry. Chirtoaca says he knows very well “what has happened in commissariats – severe violations of the human rights, and the police would be held accountable before the law for that.” He called Iacob Gumenita's explanations as “fairy tales and stupidities.” “We'll be held responsible, what's the problem?” Gumenita answered, urging Dorin Chirtoaca to complain to the general prosecutor's office and “manage the city's problems.” Several civil servants were indignant at Gumenita's conduct with the mayor, calling him a brute and discouraging him to attend the staff sittings. The capital's mayor says he'll notify the general prosecutor's office and the international bodies about repeated disobedience on the part of the police. “We don't have police, but bandits. The Chisinau police is guilty of murder. We have the evidence and investigated all the cases,” Chirtoaca said, while Iacob Gumenita told him “to calm down.”