Would you dread having to talk to employees about their extra-marital affairs? Would you even want to know about them?

Probably not.

For Italy’s paramilitary police, the Carabinieri, it’s apparently fair game for the employer to not only know about affairs but to also put a stop to them.

Italy’s highest court has ruled the Carabinieri must not have affairs so that the force’s name isn’t besmirched.

A member of the special police had appealed a lower court ruling sentencing him to four months in jail for insulting and threatening to throw a desk at his boss, who’d asked him to break off an affair with a married woman, according to wire service reports.

The ruling said the Carabinieri are called to “exemplary conduct and could not bring discredit to the armed forces with extra-marital relationships.”

By the way, the motto of the Carabinieri is “Faithful through the centuries.”

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