Relationships+Technology (Social Media) to Prevent Violence Relationships and technology are the key to community safety. The importance of #WeDay is something we all must understand! Twitter hash tags are very useful tools for police, school boards, media outlets, parents and students for dealing with fast moving emergency management scenarios. This post will provide insight...
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The Art of the Hashtag on Twitter Intro When law enforcement arrives on the scene of a situation, there’s no mistaking who is in control. The cops string the yellow tape and take over and no one is allowed to enter the restricted area. But faster than the yellow tape goes up, the virtual...
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This week my officers swooped on a large scale drug supplier, we recovered about 4 kilos of class A & class B drugs, together with several thousand pounds cash. The dealer and his accomplice have both been charged and remanded. The week before that the courts granted an order taking £56,000 off another dealer...
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Call 384 report of man holding baby over bridge – police immediately attended and it was man carrying dog that doesn’t like bridges. Call 358 woman calls about car she abandoned at petrol station in Bury after she put the wrong fuel in yesterday. Both of these calls were real, genuine calls to the...
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This is a bit of research I did to investigate the different types of followers of a typical police Twitter channel in the United Kingdom. I looked at each follower and determined which of the nine categories they best fit. The pie chart shows the most relevant category first (local public), moving round clockwise...
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On August 4th this year Mike Ellis, from ECN, (@ EmergCommNetwrk) with the assistance of Lauri Stevens, from LAwS Communications (@Lawscomm), started a new action on Twitter, with the aim: to thank the cops for their work and service, so we can safely move around the streets. They christened the action to “thank-A-cop-thursday” . A...
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In my efforts to connect with the community, I have always been looking to use modern technology. In 1995 while working as a civilian for the Santa Rosa (Ca) Police Department, I, along with one of their Detectives, started their first web page. Yes, 1995, when cell phones were as big as your arm...
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Today, ConnectedCOPS is spotlighting a researcher who is studying law enforcement agencies’ use of Twitter. Thomas Heverin hails from the College of Information Science & Technology, Drexel University, based in Philadelphia, PA – USA. He is a Ph.D. student in Information Science who has conducted studies on the public’s use of Twitter during a...
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Being a former police officer I am kind of baffled why law enforcement is failing to build community via Twitter. I have been following numerous law enforcement agencies over the past year and they Tweet out information, which is informative, but there is no two-way Tweeting. What is lacking is the community building opportunity that...
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In several police departments in the Netherlands community policemen are using Twitter to communicate with citizens. Community policemen are in that way taking citizens with them in their daily work. With their short messages they can send actual information including photo’s, video’s, location and links. Twitter is offering two way communication. It is not...
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