ROME — Rome’s iconic gesticulating traffic cops have made a comeback, and a woman has joined their ranks for the first time.
The new commander of Rome’s local police had decided to break with the all-male tradition, and Cristina Corbucci, 43, could be seen Friday waving theatrically at cars and buses from a raised platform in the central Piazza Venezia.
“It’s [a] bit like conducting an orchestra,” one of her bosses, Maurizio Maggi, told the Rome-based Il Messaggero newspaper.
‘Center of the center’
Corbucci, a political science graduate, became a traffic warden three years ago. She started her new position this week and told Il Messaggero she loved it.
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