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Vietnam capital to reassign rude traffic cops: paper
View(s):HANOI (Reuters) – Pot-bellied, short, or abusive traffic policemen will be barred from working on the streets of Vietnam’s capital and assigned desk jobs instead as Hanoi police try to clean up their unsavory image, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The city’s traffic police are following the worst offenders closely and compiling lists of those to be reassigned. All police on traffic duty will be made to carry a book on the code of conduct to remind them how to behave, the official Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper said. “Little officers, or those with too big a belly will be moved to work in offices instead of guiding traffic and settling violations,” Colonel Dao Vinh Thang, head of the Hanoi Traffic Police Department, was quoted by Tien Phong as saying.
The latest initiative follows the deployment in January of female traffic police, all part of a campaign to improve the image of the security forces.
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