Beards ban for coppers Bozo’s £240k speech Lags will be freed to work

A BEARD ban imposed on police officers.

Police Scotland said officers will need to be clean-shaven in order to wear protective masks.

Hundreds of officers will have to shave off their beards and moustaches by the end of the month under the move.

The Scottish Police Federation said it had been “inundated with complaints” over the new policy.

SPF general secretary David Kennedy said the plan had caused officers “considerable angst”. He added that he had “never seen so many complaints” during his time as a full-time official. is being frontline

BORIS “Bozo” Johnson pocketed £240,000 for a speech in Nigeria where he joked he was given a Partygate fine for “eating lunch at his desk”.

The ex-PM dismissed his police fine during the Lagos address, with the register of MPs’ interests revealing the huge sum this week.

It also revealed Matt Hancock got £10,000 for one Good Morning Britain interview.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer received two hospitality tickets worth £700 for Arsenal’s game with West Ham.

And Tory MP Crispin Blunt took £756-a-head tickets to watch Sam Smith at the O2.

THOUSANDS of convicts will be let out on day release to plug labour shortages.

Ministers want to speed up efforts to get prisoners into work by boosting training and letting more out on licence to take up apprenticeships.

Prisons minister Damian Hinds said he was in “broad agreement” with a report urging much greater use of the 50,000 people leaving jail each year.

He added: “Getting more prisoners into work really is a win-win.

“It will cut crime by reducing re-offending and grow our economy to the benefit of us all.”