Reuters: Oddly Enough: Vietnam capital to reassign obese, rude traffic cops: paper

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Vietnam capital to reassign obese, rude traffic cops: paper Mar 6th 2013, 17:18 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News South African policemen arrested, to face murder charges Fri, Mar 1 2013 Russian meteorite images caught on dashboard cameras Mon, Feb 18 2013 Fugitive ex-Los Angeles cop in shootout with police Tue, Feb 12 2013 Manhunt launched for ex-L.A. cop wanted in shootings Thu, Feb 7 2013 Analysis & Opinion Why poor people pay more bribes than rich people 1 of 2. A policeman directs traffic on a street in Hanoi March 6, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Kham HANOI | Wed Mar 6, 2013 12:18pm EST 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. He said five teams of inspectors had been sent to monitor the behavior of police on the street. Thang could not be reached for additional comment. Tempers often flare in the city of 7 million famous for constant streams of motorcycles and sometimes haphazard driving. Complaints have mounted about the conduct of traffic police, including allegations of corruption and abusive behavior. 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. Crackdowns on overweight policemen have taken place in Thailand, Pakistan, Britain, Indonesia and the Philippines in recent years. Several of those countries ordered officers to get fit and lose weight before they could return to work. (Reporting by Hanoi Newsroom; Editing by Martin Petty and Ron Popeski) Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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