Police departments are constantly struggling to get the local media to report on topics that, in spite of their best efforts, still go uncovered and they’re frustrated that when they do gain media attention, the story is often reported, well, not quite right. The latest department to up the ante using open source technology...
Read More »
Having taken part in a session entitled ‘Press Office vs Bloggers’ at the recent #HyperWM event at Walsall College, and the ‘Tweets’ since the event, I have decided to write this blog to capture the issues and what can be learnt. It was obvious from the start that there was going to be polarised...
Read More »
As a patrolman while working at the Tampa P.D. I only had contact with the Chief when I was awarded the “Officer of the Month” honor and when I was medically retired. Tampa P.D. is a fairly large department so contact with executive staff members may be less than officers realize at medium to...
Read More »
When a department is considering establishing a presence in Social Media, one of the first questions asked by administrators frequently deals with time commitment. Before answering that question, you need to determine to what extent the department involvement will be: Facebook, Twitter, a blog? As noted by Lauri Stevens in a previous post, The...
Read More »
There was a remarkable symmetry to the past week or so for me. Ashes to Ashes returned to our screens, Detective Inspector Frost retired, and I returned to the investigative arena, as a Detective Chief Inspector running three major crime teams in the West Midlands. DI Frost and DCI Hunt are fictional detectives. They...
Read More »
This is certainly not the “All traffic – all the time” post that you would normally expect me to write. Although, yes there will be traffic stuff in here. This is a post about why I do so much work in the Social Media Medium (SMM) and why you should be interested in it....
Read More »
The Chief of the Lincoln NE police department has one of the most well-read and highly regarded Chief’s blogs in the country. As an avid blogger, Chief Tom Casady has now expanded the blogging responsibilities all the way down to the very newest recruits. The 18 members of the Spring recruit class at the...
Read More »
Back in May, an article for Federal Computer Week entitled, “Intelligence Community Wrestles with Web 2.0 Tools for Information Sharing.” by Alan Joch asked an important question that caught my attention: “Do Web 2.0 technologies, such as blogs and wikis, have the potential to improve data sharing for law enforcement intelligence analysis?” Such technologies...
Read More »
The idea of law enforcement agencies using social media tools is catching on, but it’s still a strange thought to many cops who would rather cut off their right arm than admit that they’re a “tweeter”. Social media refers to the Internet-based tools that people use to interact with each other. Most are free...
Read More »
When Sergeant Tim Burrows, of the Toronto Police Services (TPS), started using Twitter in April, he thought he would be talking solely to the Toronto media. To his pleasant surprise, his twitter efforts caught on with the public. Burrows is in charge of strategic communications and media relations for traffic services unit for the...
Read More »
If you are interested in joining our mailing list, please submit your email below.
LAwS RSS: ConnectedCops
