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– Dozens of metropolitan police officers got very expensive haircuts at a police station in East London earlier this month. The force says the 31 police officers who cut their hair while on duty at Bethnal Green station will be fined £ 200 each, about $ 275, and the two officers who organized the session with a professional barber will be investigated for misconduct, he said. CNN. Barbers and hairdressers were banned from operating during Britain’s national blockade, and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick recently announced that the police would be cracking down on offenders.
The officers’ commander, Detective Chief Superintendent Marcus Barnet, said it was “deeply disappointing and frustrating” that they violated the regulations they were supposed to be complying with. “Although the officers donated money to charity as part of the haircut, it does not exempt them from a very bad decision. I expect much more from them,” said Barnett, according to the Guardian. “The public quite rightly expects the police to be a model in complying with regulations designed to prevent the spread of this deadly virus.” He said he hoped the fines and the investigation of misconduct would prove “that the police are not immune to the application of the rules”. (Read more stories from the UK.)