Suspended Officer Who Pens 7s This Way Gets Job Back

A police officer who was suspended for three days for writing his sevens European-style, with a line through them, is back on the force in good standing.

Officer Brian Yinger will collect the three days’ pay he was docked and the incident will be erased from his record, the Detroit News reported Thursday.

But Police Chief Ronald Deziel still wants him to try--hard--to write the sevens without the horizontal line through the downstroke, used commonly in Europe to differentiate the number seven from the number one. “It has been strongly suggested that he conform,” Deziel said.

In November, Yinger was suspended and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation because he was continued writing European-style sevens after Deziel ordered him to stop. Deziel said he was confusing department typists.

Deziel said he hoped the incident is behind them. “The media coverage was making the department look foolish,” he said.