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    News - Greater Manchester Police in 24-hour tweetathon

    One of the UK's largest police forces is publishing details of every incident it deals with on social-network website Twitter.
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    Re: News - Greater Manchester Police in 24-hour tweetathon

    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/

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    Re: News - Greater Manchester Police in 24-hour tweetathon

    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.

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    Re: News - Greater Manchester Police in 24-hour tweetathon

    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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    Re: News - Greater Manchester Police in 24-hour tweetathon

    Quote Originally Posted by Lee @ SCAN View Post
    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.
    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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    Re: News - Greater Manchester Police in 24-hour tweetathon

    Quote Originally Posted by cheesemp View Post
    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!
    People like this should be shot and then recycled into pet food. Would help the budget deficit too, dare say most of the these dumb people don't work....

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