Kitchen Worker or Cop?


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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Maybe the hipster cops can think of it as wearing the nets ironically.
Given US forfeiture laws, American cops should have to wear pantyhose on their head.
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.
Scalp hair is every bit as unsanitary as beard hair. Do officers who choose not to be bald have to wear a hair net?
They have to wear hats?
Maybe it's all the semen falling out of their mustaches.
Are panties allowed?
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