Sixty-four recruits joined the Department of Civil Protection after successfully completing an intensive twenty-week training course. Thus now this department has almost 300 officers.
The recruits took the oath of office at the end of a ceremony held at the Civil Protection station in Hal Far. The highlight of the ceremony was the passing out parade of the recruits.
In an address to the recruits during this ceremony, the Minister for the Interior, Security and Work Byron Camilleri claimed how these workers will join a Department, which through the continuous investment made by this the government, is equipped with all the necessary tools for rescue and civil protection operations.
“We invested in your training as well, so much so that every time the hour of trial came you always came out with honors both in our country but even when you died helping those in need in Turkey, in Greece, in Libya – and they were praised and appreciated by everyone,” said Minister Byron Camilleri.
He also referred to strengthening the rights, conditions and salaries of the members of the disciplined bodies. Among them with a new collective agreement for all Civil Protection workers, which brought better rights and conditions and a strengthening of the service pension. The minister also explained that for the first time in history, pensioners who served in a disciplinary body and who did not receive an increase in the cost of living, will now be given an additional bonus equal to the full increase given for the cost of living -life.
For the passing out parade ceremony the General Director Peter Paul Coleiro and the recruit Melanie Callus also addressed the recruits.
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