The number of crimes committed in 2020 went down by a whopping 16 per cent, official figures published Saturday showed, as the impact of the pandemic seems to h
Some €3 million, collected by LESA through traffic fines, will be invested by local councils in community projects.
An agreement, signed on Monday by Home
Police union says officers are not being given quarantine leave
The Police Officers Union says officers are also front liners and should benefit from quarantine leave like other government department employees if they test positive for COVID-19
15 January 2021, 4:08pm
by Laura Calleja
Police officers do not benefit from quarantine leave like other public sector employees if they test positive for COVID-19
The Police Officers Union has complained that officers are not being given quarantine leave like other public service employees, forcing them to use their sick leave when testing positive for COVID-19.
Posting to Facebook, the union said it had once again emailed the Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri to ask that officers who tested positive for COVID-19 are given quarantine leave, like other government workers.
Three soldiers, two prison officials and a senior police officer all failed drug tests carried out last year, Home Affairs Minister Byron Camilleri said on Wednesday.
Camilleri told parliament that 141 random and mandatory drug tests were carried out on members of the Armed Forces, with three testing positive.
Sources said the cases were all related to cocaine use.
Camilleri said these figures did not include tests carried out on recruits, cadets, or AFM reserves.
One other soldier who refused to take a test was dismissed.
Camilleri was replying to a series of questions by Opposition MP Beppe Fenech Adami.
The minister also said that two prison guards tested positive for cocaine, after 41 tests were carried out last year.