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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>By Staff Reporter<\/b> – POLICE commanders in Midlands province have ordered members of the force rearing chickens within police residential camps to cut the number of birds to a maximum of 10 after it has emerged the force was incurring high water bills from the practice.<\/p>\n

In a memo gleaned by NewZimbabwe.com, police officers were ordered to also limit their vegetable gardens to just one.<\/p>\n

\u201cAddressees are being advised that the province is recording and accumulating very high bills of water charges each and month.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been observed that water is being overused in gardens and maintenance of fowls or chickens.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeaking water tapes also contribute to the wastage of precious water which results in high bills from our service providers across the province,\u201d reads the memo.<\/p>\n

A lot of police officers have turned to side hustles or outright corruption to supplement their poor wages.<\/p>\n

Some now operate pirate taxis as a side hustle.<\/p>\n

As part of the police orders by the commanders, \u201ceach family to be limited to only one standard vegetable bed,\u201d while, \u201crearing of chickens to be strictly limited to a maximum of 10 birds per family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police officers living within the force\u2019s premises were ordered not to locate their vegetable beds \u201ctoo close to the buildings to avoid weakening of the foundation\u201d.<\/p>\n

The memo continued, \u201cCivilians must not be allowed to fetch water from police camps with immediate effect. If found the respective officer in charge shall be charged.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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