Read more.One of the UK's largest police forces is publishing details of every incident it deals with on social-network website Twitter.
Read more.One of the UK's largest police forces is publishing details of every incident it deals with on social-network website Twitter.
Interesting idea, not quite sure what I make of it. Seems like it has the ability to backfire rather spectacularly. Although I find it hard to criticise anything that shows the public the reality of policing 21st century Britain.
For anyone interested in the realities of policing without the PR filter I highly recommend these two blogs written anonymously by serving officers, not normally a blog person, but I'm utterly hooked;
http://inspectorgadget.wordpress.com/
http://pcbloggs.blogspot.com/
Some of the updates have been quite amusing really and it goes to show what some people think they can use the police for nowadays.
The real ones are @gmp24_1 @gmp24_2 and @gmp24_3
Someone has made a spoof one at
http://twitter.com/gmp24_0
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Thats very true - I've heard calls (publicly available ones) from someone wishing to speak to prime minster to tell him 'he's my kinda guy', to people looking for homebase that can't find it! They then can't understand why operator doesn't classify these as emergencies!
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