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Police

Kitchen Worker or Cop?

Charles Oliver | 8.6.2015 6:00 AM

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In England, police officers employed by the Gloucesertshire constabulary aren't happy with a new dress code that requires officers who aren't clean shaven to wear a beard net while on duty. A statement from the department says it's important for officers to have a professional appearance.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   10 years ago

    Maybe the hipster cops can think of it as wearing the nets ironically.

  2. straffinrun   10 years ago

    Given US forfeiture laws, American cops should have to wear pantyhose on their head.

  3. KerryW   10 years ago

    And nothing says professional more than having netting draped across your face.

    I think it would makestheir job harder when people are laughing at them.

  4. Gindjurra   10 years ago

    Scalp hair is every bit as unsanitary as beard hair. Do officers who choose not to be bald have to wear a hair net?

    1. Bubba Jones   10 years ago

      They have to wear hats?

      Maybe it's all the semen falling out of their mustaches.

  5. Lorenzo   10 years ago

    Are panties allowed?

  6. Eman   10 years ago

    hah this is idiotic. beard nets are stupid in restaurants, and the chance of something falling out of a policeman's beard into something someone is gonna put in their body seems pretty small

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