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Friday, January 21, 2011
Suspect female suspect
I suppose the easy thing to say about this particular item would be: “He’ll have to try harder than that to get a cheap deal on women’s car insurance!”
The man in question is a Sydney police officer, caught and charged recently for behaving in an offensive manner whilst off-duty.
Patrolling colleagues discovered him sat in the back of his police car at 10.40pm, parked in an unlit street in the West of the city.
On the seat next to him were his uniform and police issue gun-belt. And how shall we put it, his disguise as a woman was not very convincing.
It’s not a pretty picture.
The man, who had six years of police work behind him, was fined $500 (a little over £300), but it was not recorded whether he lost his job.
I’m inclined to think that a man’s ability (or lack of it) to dress prescriptively in his free time shouldn’t have to affect his status at work. But needless to say, the fact that he was caught in a police vehicle - and sat next to his own police uniform – shines a less than professional light on the Sydney police force.
I expect that in this country, his behaviour would result in an instant dismissal – and probably an inquiry of some drawn-out and expensive kind. But I’d like to think that in the more laid-back antipodes a cop could be caught cross-dressing by his mates; be teased mercilessly about it for a while; and afterwards be given the chance to get back on with his job (and his out-of-hours hobbies) in peace.
Image © Alex Proimos via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
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