Police officers have been told to wear t-shirts, not to man barriers at village feasts, and stop reading e-mails after work, in new directives issued on Thursday. In a statement, the Malta Police Union said it had registered an industrial dispute over a new policy which it says caps the amount of overtime officers can claim. The new policy, enforced by the police leadership, sets a limit on the amount of overtime and extra duty on payment a member of the force can work. This, the union said, was happening when the force was experiencing an exodus of officers and those remaining were under increased stress. According to figures tabled in parliament earlier this month, some 117 officers hung up their uniforms before reaching retirement age between 2017 and May of this year. These included officers that had been transferred to other departments, were fired or had passed away. What do the directives say? The directives urge officers to wear their police-issued baseball cap and t-shirt for all duties (except court and tribunals), together with their police identification tag. They are not to perform fixed duties with barriers during feasts and events and are to only accept...