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Twitter! Now being used by Greater Manchester police - Mark - 15-10-2010
Twitter! Now being used by Greater Manchester police
Greater Manchester are now using Twitter in unison with their crime fighting skills.
Chief constable, Peter Fahy was heading the so called "Twitathon" which spanned over 24 hours. During this time they received 3205 incidents resulting in 341 arrests.
If all goes well they're hoping to add Twitter in to their tool bag of resources. Using the basic method of calling 999 when you have a problem is putting the call centres under stress with two thirds of all calls being labelled as "social work", rather than "crime" - social work being the scruffs in Benchill being let out in to the streets, wearing pyjamas where they like to shout and scream.
A huge amount of prank calls are also received, as well as a lot of silly calls; today alone, Greater Manchester police received 6 calls in an hour off young children being let loose and messing about with the phone. Then a further 30 "accidental" or prank calls during the day. Surprisingly officers received a call off an old man reporting that he couldn't work his TV. :hehe
The use of Twitter allows instant results and feedback.
Greater Manchester Police: @gmpolice
mcompute: @mcomputeforums