Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO), Com­man­der Dr Daryl Din­di­al, has ex­pressed grat­i­tude to this coun­try’s fire of­fi­cers on be­half of the State, for their in­valu­able con­tri­bu­tions to­wards en­sur­ing the pub­lic’s safe­ty.

He ex­tend­ed the trib­utes dur­ing a re­cent vis­it to his of­fices by the new­ly elect­ed Ex­ec­u­tive of the Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion of Trinidad and To­ba­go (2nd Di­vi­sion).

A re­lease from the CPO’s Of­fice re­ports that the union’s new Ex­ec­u­tive paid a cour­tesy vis­it to in­tro­duce them­selves, on Jan­u­ary 11, 2024.

Dur­ing the meet­ing, Com­man­der Din­di­al gave the union’s new ex­ec­u­tive team an up­date on the pro­posed Job Eval­u­a­tion Ex­er­cise for the Fire Ser­vice of Trinidad and To­ba­go. The con­duct of a new job eval­u­a­tion was one of the items pre­vi­ous­ly agreed on be­tween the CPO and the Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tions in 2023.

The newly elected President of the Fire Service Association (2nd Division), Keone Guy (2nd from left), and the Association’s new Executive, meet with the Chief Personnel Officer, Commander Dr Daryl Dindial, and his team, during a courtesy visit to the Personnel Department on January 11, 2024. [Image courtesy Office of the Chief Personnel Officer]

The CPO as­sured the Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tion that the Per­son­nel De­part­ment’s Job Eval­u­a­tion Project Of­fice (JE­PO) was well poised to man­age the pend­ing Job Eval­u­a­tion, as it is staffed by a Project Man­age­ment Team with proven ex­pe­ri­ence in the man­age­ment of job eval­u­a­tions.

Oth­er mat­ters dis­cussed by the par­ties in­clud­ed the pro­pos­al of a Group Health Plan, Pen­sion Re­form, Trav­el­ling Al­lowance for Of­fi­cers in act­ing po­si­tions and the in­clu­sion of T-ve­hi­cles for trav­el­ing pur­pos­es.  Both par­ties in­di­cat­ed a com­mit­ment to con­tin­ue di­a­logue on mat­ters re­lat­ed to im­prov­ing the terms and con­di­tions of em­ploy­ment for Fire Of­fi­cers.

Com­man­der Din­di­al al­so ac­knowl­edged the con­tri­bu­tion of the union’s for­mer pres­i­dent, Leo Ramkissoon, com­mend­ing his ded­i­ca­tion and gen­uine in­ter­est in im­prov­ing the man­age­ment of is­sues for the Fire Ser­vice, as well as his strong ad­vo­ca­cy for bet­ter terms and con­di­tions of em­ploy­ment for Fire Of­fi­cers.