The Civil Protection Department is extending two main stations and its Kandja headquarters through a €600,000 investment.
The project, which will see the extension of the Ħal Far and Xemxija stations, will be completed next year.
The development was given the green light 10 months after the CPD complained that unlike other disciplinary corps in Malta, it was not allowed to carry out such work through a simple development notification order.
Director Emanuel Psaila told a news conference on Wednesday that last May, he had expressed concern with the prime minister about such unequal treatment.
Asked by
Times of Malta to elaborate, Psaila said that for years CPD officials had been “treated as second class citizens” and it was only recently that issues such as being allowed to join a trade union, signing a collective agreement about work conditions, getting insurance coverage and become eligible for the 25-year service pension were tackled. There was currently “good syn