Richmond Police Officer Mervin Mayo, left, a school resource officer, and Maj. Darrell Goins, who heads Area 1 operations, show off their new bearded looks, grown since the policy change on Jan. 31. Officer Mayo estimates that about 70 percent of the officers now have beards and/or mustaches.
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Facial hair? Richmond Police uniformed officers now have the OK
If you see uniformed Richmond Police officers sporting beards and mustaches, they have the OK of the top brass. Interim Police Chief William C. Smith made it possible. He quietly amended the department’s grooming policy to allow patrol officers to grow and wear neatly trimmed beards, goatees and mustaches.
