Chinese travelers looking for a relaxing

But the new rule—effective immediately—says there will be

no tattoos allowed on the face, hands or above the collar

line. Any other tattoos must remain covered at all times.

(PHOTOS: Marines’ Tattoos in Marjah, Afghanistan)

And it is all in the name of professionalism, the Associated

Press reports.

The Met’s official statement said, according to the BBC:

“The standard of appearance required from serving police

officers and staff has recently been reviewed to promote

consistency.”

Officers already on the force can get grandfathered into the

new limitations, but must “register” the offending marks by

a Nov. 12 deadline or deal with a charge of gross misconduct.

In the memo to staff, as reported by the BBC, officials told

officers that “all visible tattoos damage the professional

image of the Metropolitan Police Service.”

London’s police force isn’t the first to ban tattoos.

Dozens of police departments throughout the U.S. require

tattoos to be covered and “excessive body art” has been

limited in the U.S. military too — as well as several school

districts (for both teachers and students) and private

businesses. Everyone, it seems, writes a different rule about

professionalism and tattoos. And Scotland Yard just wrote

theirs.

Chinese travelers looking for a relaxing ‘Golden Week’ may

have been disappointed. Record numbers set out for this month

’s national holiday, creating a human traffic jam of epic

proportions. Over the course of the 8-day break, some 740

million people were on the move. At Beijing’s Forbidden City

on Oct. 2, visitor numbers hit a record high of 180, 000

tourists — the equivalent of 357 people entering the complex

every minute. The following day, Hangzhou’s picturesque West

Lake welcomed 900,000 visitors into an area less than twice

the size of New York‘s Central Park. Things got so

uncomfortably packed that several sacred mountains, including

Tai Shan, Wu Dang Shan and Lu Shan, were even forced to stop

selling tickets altogether.

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that in the way academic institutions can work more closely

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their smaller counterpart HCL Technologies is on course to

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