Police are banned from sticking poppies on their cars

Oct 13, 2018 by

by Tim Stickings, Mailonline:

Police have been banned from putting poppies on their cars in a move which has ‘gone down like a cup of cold sick’ with officers.

British Transport Police have told their officers not to use the poppy stickers on their vehicles ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which ended World War I.

Police chiefs were concerned about singling out one charity over others and feared the stickers were not official.

But Colonel Richard Kemp, who commanded British troops in Afghanistan, said the ban had ‘the stench of political correctness all over it’.

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