Dutch police complain it is their right to smoke cannabis while off-duty

Dutch police complain it is their right to smoke cannabis while off-duty

Banned: But Dutch police complain the ban against cannabis overrules their personal freedoms


Police in Amsterdam are complaining over new rules banning them from smoking cannabis while off duty.

Officers in the Dutch capital, famous for its liberal drugs laws, have been told they must set the public "a good moral example".

The ban, due to come into effect on January 1, will make the force the first in the Netherlands to bar officers from using drugs when not at work.

Frank Gittay, the city's police council chairman, said: "Until now police were only banned from showing up for work stoned or drunk.

"But now we are telling officers they should also behave like the police at all times.

"That means not taking drugs and not getting excessively drunk whether on or off duty."

But Dutch police union chairman Hans van Duijn said: "Many of our members are opposed to this.

"They are not paid for 24-hours a day. What they do in their free time is up to them."

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wow, what a situation to be in.
sounds like thoes might be the good cops we here about

sounds like nl is becoming tougher all the time.

DIGITALHIPPY said:

wow, what a situation to be in.
sounds like thoes might be the good cops we here about

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I think most cops are good its just the shitty laws they have to enforce, ya dig?

NorCalChron said:

I think most cops are good its just the shitty laws they have to enforce, ya dig?

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maybe once you discount ll the dickheads who got bullied at school and joined up for some payback.....
It really does sound like NL's liberal policy is going slowly but surely down the proverbial shi tter....

If they're unionized they should argue that this prohibition against weed is not in their collective bargaining agreement and if they want it in there then it should be bargained for the next time the CBA expires. It's what cops and other govt employees do here all the time: "Oh, you're going to drug test us randomly? Well, let's see here, I don't seem to see it anywhere in the CBA. It would be a violation of the CBA to unilaterally change our job requirements in that manner and we would certainly refuse or even strike if you attempted to do so..."

Psychotropic said:

Officers in the Dutch capital, famous for its liberal drugs laws, have been told they must set the public "a good moral example".

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And when is someone going to tell US cops that the Wyatt Earp mustache is out of fashion since 30 years?

is that feller above one of the village people's decendents

i guess no bite on that

at least no ban on pot