Wednesday 8th February 2012
Opolskie
12th June 2009
"...the officers clubbed together for a water fountain, after all it’s hardly a luxury, but at least we don’t have to drink tap water. Now it turns out we’re not allowed to plug them in!”
Opole police officers are voicing their discontent at a raft of stringent cost cutting measures being imposed by the region’s police Commissioner.Opole police officers are voicing their discontent at a raft of stringent cost cutting measures being imposed by the region’s police Commissioner. The measures banning water fountains, forcing sheets of A4 to be cut in half and demanding emails be used, even in police stations which still rely on typewriters as they have no computers or internet connection, are being met with disbelief. “Just to make things clear, nobody at the station has provided us with beverages or water. So the officers clubbed together for a water fountain, after all it ...
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