Grants for probation officers

Probation offers engaged with the Probation Services Department will benefit from grants ranging from €1,200 (Lm515.16) to €1,500 (Lm643.95) following an agreement signed between the government and the Union Ħaddiema Magħqudin.

Home Affairs Minister Tonio Borg said the government recognised the increasingly demanding nature of the job the probation officers performed and engaged in discussion with the union to find a way to give probation officers these allowances. Dr Borg said the probation services were started in 1957 and there were currently 13 probation officers, 10 of whom were women. These were dealing with about 500 cases.

UĦM president Gejtu Tanti expressed his satisfaction at the agreement while Prisons Director Sandro Gatt, under whose wing probation officers fall, praised the level of services delivered by the probation officers.