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Pagan Police Get Solstice Leave


Society & Culture  (tags: society, culture, Police officers, Pagan, Religious Rights, tolerance, human rights, freedoms, goodnews )

Dee
- 132 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Pagan officers will be able to join revellers at Stonehenge. Pagan police officers in some areas are being allowed to take as many as eight days leave a year for events such as the summer solstice and Halloween.
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Dee C. (507)
Saturday July 18, 2009, 7:55 am
"It comes after the Pagan Police Association was set up following discussions with Home Office officials.

Policy on police leave varies between forces in England and Wales.

Hertfordshire Police lets Pagan staff re-allocate the traditional bank holidays to meet their beliefs - it has also appointed two Pagan chaplains.

Pc Andy Pardy, a Pagan neighbourhood beat officer in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, was one of the officers involved in setting up the association."

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Bee Hive Lady (304)
Saturday July 18, 2009, 9:09 am
I am a Pagan too and so are my children. My oldest son in the Navy made sure that he would get his Pagan holidays off on all of his duty stations. I completely approve of religious holiday for any faith.
 

Chrissy N. (118)
Sunday July 19, 2009, 2:08 am
Bravo to this forward thinking!
 

Debbie L. (171)
Sunday July 19, 2009, 5:19 am
WOW, very progressive department. Bravo to them.
 

suzanne s. (9)
Tuesday July 21, 2009, 4:51 pm
this is just as it should be.
 
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