In the month of June 2024, the government approved the salary increase for State Police employees, saying that the salaries will be higher and depending on the rank of police employees.
But before long, hundreds of employees in the Berat Police Directorate in central Albania, which also includes the police stations of Skrapar, Berat, Dimal and Kuçova, complained to Fiks Fare program on Top Channel that they did not receive the food allowance for the month of December 2023. Also they had not even received the additional hours pay of the months of June, July, August and September.
Dozens of police officers in Berat District addressed the show Fiks Fare for non-payment of food treatment for the month of December 2023. In fact, with the letter number 5670/9, dated 17.09.2024, of the head of the Police at that time of the State, senior leader Mr. Sokol Bizhga, orders “finance sectors to pay the obligation for the month of December 2023 to the salary account of police officers”.
“As it was ordered on September 17, 2024 in the telegram from the directorate, payment in the amount of the obligation for the month of December 2023 in the salary account of about 300 employees of the State Police, Berat, has not been carried out. And this is carried out openly by the Head of the Berat Police Finance Section, Mrs. Burbuqe Koro with the deception that this value was given to these employees as a prepayment in the middle of December 2023. There is no way it will happen, because after completing a month’s work for this, you will also be paid for the food allowance from the employer no later than the date 5 of the following month,” the complaint states.
Fiks Fare spoke on the phone with the head of finance at the Police Directorate of Berat, Burbuqe Koro, who stated that the food treatment payment for the month of December 2023 was paid in the middle of December 2023, but dozens of police officers stated that they did not receive it.
The General Directorate admits in September 2024 that this month’s payment has not been made, contrary to what the head of finance in Berat stated. Regarding the additional hours and unpaid ones, the directorate says that the payments for the additional hours have been made for the months of June and July 2024, whereas the payments for the period August-September 2024 will be made ‘when the funds arrive.’
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