CAUGHT!!! Police Officers Fired For Kissing While On Duty

It seems officers of the law in Tanzania take their job too seriously. Two Tanzanian police officers may not have thought that a photo showing them kissing while dressed in their work uniform would end their careers.
As it was discovered later the image was uploaded to the internet by a third officer, who also took the photo, and drawn to the attention of the authorities at the Kagera police force, north west Tanzania. Besidea, the officer behind the camera also was dismissed over the incident.

Explaining the situation and step taken, Henry Mwaibambe, the regional police commander, said, “We followed all disciplinary procedures to make sure that they were given a chance to defend themselves.

The officer looking at the case was convinced there was compelling evidence against them, and that they had breached police code of conduct. That’s why they lost their jobs.”

According to a lawyer at the Tanzania Legal and Human Rights Center, in this case it wasn’t the kiss itself that led to their dismissal, but the fact that that it happened in public, whilst in uniform, and was subsequently posted online.

“They should have been reprimanded, sacking them is extreme, huuh!” posted one on Facebook. “Police couple kissing taken more serious than bribery,” wrote a third on Twitter.It also appears the photograph may have been taken back in 2012, but was only recently posted on social media.

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