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  • 9 months ago
Minister of Homeland Security Roger Alexander announced that Cabinet has approved a plan to absorb 280 Auxiliary Fire Officers into the T&T Fire Service.

Speaking at the Post Cabinet media briefing on Thursday, Alexander said this would be done at no cost to address understaffing concerns.

He said there is a shortage of 420 fire officers as of this month. The T&T Fire Service is expected to have a recruitment drive to address this staff shortage.
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00:00For the last number of years, the Trantobago Fire Services, after communication with the
00:11Chief Fire Officer, has been understaffed.
00:14As a result of that, today, the Honourable Prime Minister, this Cabinet, took a decision
00:22to have 280 auxiliary fire officers absorbed into the Trantobago Fire Services.
00:36This is a situation where, since 2018, November 30th, when the then government shut down
00:46the Petitrin, a number of officers had to be called out to man the fire stations down
00:58at the Petitrin headquarters and other areas of concern.
01:01So the Cabinet took this decision today to absorb 280 auxiliary police officers into
01:13the Trantobago Fire Services.
01:16Fire officers, sorry.
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