Try to Help Some People and You Just Get Burned
From Times Wire Reports
Police in Philadelphia have been told to put out their cigarettes permanently after a newspaper photograph showed an officer smoking as he helped lift a man in a wheelchair outside a burning building.
The police commissioner issued the ban, saying smoking on duty “may be perceived as unprofessional” and can be dangerous.
An initial violation will likely draw a written reprimand, with more violations treated as “failure to obey orders,” a spokesman said.
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