Beard Liberation Front
3rd May
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Line of Duty: the beard question
With series 6 of Line of Duty concluding on Sunday one issue that has been raised is beards in the police force.
One of the central characters DI Steve Arnott (played by Martin Compston) has a beard, provoking general comment.
https://lineofduty.fandom.com/wiki/Steve_Arnott
The Big Issue, one of the very few publications that reports sensibly on beards, has surveyed the UK picture
As some at least might suspect the preference of the police in many cases is to make things up as they go along and beard policy is little different.
The Gloucester force attempted to ban beards but seem to have relented on a case by case basis.
Lincolnshire and possibly elsewhere tried to argue that beards would get in the way if police needed to wear medical, as opposed to general protection, masks. However medical masks are for medics not police officers
In Scotland where a more authoritarian approach is adopted, there seem to be guidelines on how exactly moustaches should be worn.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, in line with other public servants we’d expect police officers wearing beards to make sure that they are generally neat and tidy. That should be sufficient and it seemed to work ok in the case of DI Arnott.
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