They are common and recurring questions. Can I access the police if I have tattoos? Will they allow me to enter the military with this visible tattoo? Regulations are changing and from time to time news related to this field appears. The tattoos at local police they are normalizing. The latest news comes to us from Santa Cruz de Tenerife. And it is that the Plenary of the City Council will annul a dozen articles of the Organic Regulation approved in the previous mandate to comply with judicial sentences.
The tattoos in the local police of Santa Cruz de Tenerife will be allowed. Like the piercings. On the other hand, men will no longer be obliged to request permission from their superiors in order to grow a beard or mustache. The new government group of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council will, in this way, comply with several judicial sentences that gave the reason to the agents in their battle against this controversial municipal regulation.
Specifically, the following points have been eliminated from the regulations: 17.4.b, 28, 29, 32, 62, 63, 68.2, 68.4, 69.2 and 69.3. Point 69.2 refers to the prohibition of the use of tattoos in the local police of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Specifically, visible tattoos, pendants, and piercings. And point 69.3 prohibits women to wear their hair down, men who have it long, to grow beards and mustaches, and the use of hair dyes.
This is an important step towards normalizing the world of tattoo. It is true that in recent years things have changed, for the better. Despite this, there are still different social ranks in which it is not well seen to wear any type of tattoo or piercings.