The facial hair cannot be longer than 20mm and is required to be “appropriately maintained”.
Police commissioner Grant Stevens approved changes to dress standards to allow officers to have "visible, non-offensive tattoos, and hair standards will no longer be gender specific".
Face, head, neck and hand tattoos are not permitted unless they are small/discreet in size/colour/location and can be appropriately covered while on duty. Applicants with tattoos/body art on the head, face, neck or hands should contact the PCO Employment Team at [email protected].
Beards are authorized, but patchy, or spotty clumps of facial hair, excluding those resulting from scars, are not considered beards and as such are not permitted. If a beard or mustache is worn, it shall be well-groomed and neatly trimmed at all times in order not to present a ragged appearance.
“A full beard (King George V style) or goatee-style beards are the approved beard styles,” the guidelines read. Officers must be cleanly shaven from the lower jaw to the shirt collar and moustaches cannot be wider than the outer edge of each eye or extend beyond the bottom edge of the upper lip.
Beards are normally not allowed in the Australian Army. Moustaches may be worn. However, moustaches can not be grown past the ends of the top lip. Sideburns are not to be grown past the point where the bottom of the ear connects to the facial skin.
Facial hair policies differ across Australia's air force, navy and army. Royal Australian Navy personnel are only allowed to grow beards when they have permission. They must abide by the regulations that require beards to be "neat, trim and closely cropped, to a minimum bulk of 4mm and a maximum of 50mm".
Facial Hair (and Long Hair!)
Facial hair (like beards and sideburns) affect the seal on Respiratory Protection Equipment (RPE). This includes BA and face masks. Therefore all operational staff must be clean shaven, to guarantee a complete and safe face seal.
Around the early 1980s, facial hair fell out of favor in the workplace. It has persisted since then that the image of the clean-shaven face is synonymous with professionalism.
Navy officials have said beards can be an operational risk for sailors who have to put on a breathing apparatus, and stubble can cause an improper seal on firefighting or gas masks, which is an essential ability for service members aboard ships.
Once you are sworn in as a constable you will be paid $74,487 plus allowances per annum. In addition, there are shift penalties and overtime payments available.
Victoria Police provides a 24-hour, seven day-a-week service, therefore as a Constable you will be required to work a variety of shifts associated with particular duties and locations. This includes weekends, night shifts and public holidays.
Your salary and entitlements will be calculated on a pro-rata rate based on the contact hours worked. The annual base salary of a PSO is $66,399 at full time; it will then reduce to part time pro-rata of full time. All leave entitlements will also be calculated pro-rata of contact hours worked.
A police officer is required to give their name, rank and station if you ask for that information. If you were being searched or the police officer first asked you for your name and address but then refused to provide his identity, he may be guilty of an offence and receive a fine.
The only equipment that can be regarded as illegal to carry by someone off duty or not an officer at all would be cuffs, baton and spray. This is because the cuffs and baton are made offensive weapons that we are authorised to use when we are working and the spray is a firearm under law that has the same restrictions.
How long can police hold evidence without charges in Australia? The law has no provisions that set a deadline for giving the property back. Instead, it states that police can keep items for as long as reasonably necessary. In practice, police officers must retain seized property within a short delay.
Workers in food service, the military, and public service jobs commonly run into such bans. And men who run Fortune 500 companies typically don't have facial hair either, but that trend may be changing.
From a legal perspective, employers can require male employees to shave as long as it doesn't infringe on their civil rights, or cause undue hardship.
Facial hair is allowed as long as it does not protrude under the respirator seal, or extend far enough to interfere with the device's valve function.
As a firefighter you will be required to wear a facemask when you are wearing breathing apparatus. To ensure that the facemask forms a seal around the face, it is necessary to keep the face shaven to prevent any dangerous airborne chemicals entering the facemask.
However, when a respirator must be worn to protect employees from airborne contaminants, it has to fit correctly, and this will require the wearer's face to be clean-shaven where the respirator seals against it.
In a break from tradition, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) members are now allowed to grow and wear beards.
Two of men also had hair 'longer than collar length' with a full beard also on show. Regulations are that servicemen are to be cleanly shaven, with their hair cut over the ears. It also states that "personnel should also not mix civilian and military clothing".
(i) Smoking in all Defence establishments has been banned for several years. The current policy extends this ban and provides guidance to Commanders/Managers on how to implement the policy. The smoking restrictions also apply to contractors and visitors.