Vietnam capital to reassign obese, rude traffic cops: paper

HANOI, Mar 8: Pot-bellied, short, or abusive traffic policemen will be barred from working on the streets of Vietnam’s capital and assigned desk jobs instead as Hanoi police try to clean up their unsavory image, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. The city’s traffic police are following the worst offenders closely and compiling lists of those to be reassigned. All police on traffic duty will be made to carry a book on the code of conduct to remind them how to behave, the official Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper said. (agencies)