Ke­jan Haynes

Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO), Com­man­der Dr Daryl Din­di­al, con­tin­ued ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice So­cial and Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion (TTP­SWA) and the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force (TTDF) Pay Re­view Com­mit­tee to­day, ac­cord­ing to a me­dia re­lease from the Of­fice of the CPO. 

Dis­cus­sions with the TTP­SWA fo­cused on the on­go­ing Job Eval­u­a­tion Ex­er­cise (JEE) agreed up­on in pri­or ne­go­ti­a­tions. Oth­er top­ics in­clud­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go's eco­nom­ic out­look, pen­sion re­form, a group health plan, and al­lowances for rent, uni­forms, and cloth­ing. Com­man­der Din­di­al not­ed the TTP­SWA is fi­nal­is­ing its pro­pos­als, with fur­ther dis­cus­sions ex­pect­ed in De­cem­ber.

The meet­ing with the TTDF ad­dressed po­ten­tial grade struc­ture com­pres­sion and al­lowances, in­clud­ing rent, uni­form, cloth­ing, spe­cial ser­vice, dis­tur­bance, and spe­cial­i­sa­tion al­lowances. The talks al­so cov­ered the "x-fac­tor," a term re­fer­ring to unique com­pen­sato­ry mea­sures for ser­vice mem­bers.

Com­man­der Din­di­al de­scribed the meet­ings as cor­dial and pro­duc­tive, high­light­ing a shared un­der­stand­ing of the crit­i­cal roles these or­gan­i­sa­tions play in na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and, for the TTDF, re­gion­al hu­man­i­tar­i­an and dis­as­ter re­lief ef­forts.