The U.S. Secret Service has issued new rules for its employees, who are banned from drinking alcohol at all within 10 hours of working, visiting "non-reputable" establishments while travelling and bringing foreigners to their hotel rooms.
The tightened conduct rules apply to agents and other Secret Service employees while they are travelling for work, even if they are not on duty.
The new behaviour policies are the agency's latest attempt to shake off a prostitution scandal that surfaced as President Barack Obama was headed to a Latin American summit in Cartagena, Colombia.
The embattled Secret Service director, Mark Sullivan, on Friday urged agents and other employees to “consider your conduct through the lens of the past several weeks.”
Sullivan said the rules “cannot address every situation that our employees will face as we execute our dual-missions throughout the world.” He added: “The absence of a specific, published standard of conduct covering an act or behaviour does not mean that the act is condoned, is permissible or will not call for — and result in — corrective or disciplinary action.”
“All employees have a continuing obligation to confront expected abuses or perceived misconduct,” Sullivan said.
Ethics classes will be conducted for agency employees next week.
5. Do you live the law of chastity?
10. Do your keep the Word of Wisdom?
(Some people who are far, far from righteous lie through their teeth)
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