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'Jellybelly' e-mail costs chief his job
By UPI Staff
United Press International
November 3, 2006
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (UPI) -- A Florida police chief who sent members of his department an e-mail complaining about lack of physical fitness has been forced to resign.
The memo from Paul Goward, head of the police department in Winter Haven, had as its subject line "Are you a jelly belly?" the Orlando Sentinel reported.
"As I look around the department I see a disconcerting number of us that appear physically challenged with obesity and/or a general lack of physical fitness," Goward told his officers.
In the e-mail, he said overweight police officers give a poor public impression and have a harder time doing their jobs. He urged the officers to lose weight, exercise, quit smoking and limit their drinking.
City officials said they received two anonymous complaints.
The longer complaint talked of poor morale and called the e-mail "icing on the cake." The other asked, "Is this the type of leader that you have working for the City of Winter Haven?"
By UPI Staff
United Press International
November 3, 2006
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (UPI) -- A Florida police chief who sent members of his department an e-mail complaining about lack of physical fitness has been forced to resign.
The memo from Paul Goward, head of the police department in Winter Haven, had as its subject line "Are you a jelly belly?" the Orlando Sentinel reported.
"As I look around the department I see a disconcerting number of us that appear physically challenged with obesity and/or a general lack of physical fitness," Goward told his officers.
In the e-mail, he said overweight police officers give a poor public impression and have a harder time doing their jobs. He urged the officers to lose weight, exercise, quit smoking and limit their drinking.
City officials said they received two anonymous complaints.
The longer complaint talked of poor morale and called the e-mail "icing on the cake." The other asked, "Is this the type of leader that you have working for the City of Winter Haven?"
