Tag Archives: GMP
Twitter – publicity or engagement?
In the past few days I read the interesting paper from Jeremy Crump analysing what the police are doing on Twitter. It charts the developments that have taken place since 2008 when the first police forces in the UK started … Continue reading
Who owns social media?
There are some days when you can take a long look at where you are and what you are doing and can feel a sense of satisfaction. Today was one of those days for me. Why? Well, it was down … Continue reading
Calling police officers and staff – help decide the future of Polchat
Some months ago we established a Twitter based chat about policing and communication known as #polchat. It helped to bring people together and shared some good practice about the work going on within police forces. Among the things discussed were … Continue reading
The passion for social media
It has been an interesting week. One where I was put in the spotlight for the work Greater Manchester Police has done to use social media to support policing. This attention isn’t something I enjoy. My role is to promote … Continue reading
Are we tweeting yet?
There were a few real Eureka moments for me that happened in the past week. For an organisation that is often risk averse and quite conservative in how it approaches things, they are ‘getting’ social media. On two separate occasions … Continue reading
All about the 90/10 rule
For many months now I have been promoting the use of social media in the policing world. It brings with it many opportunities for police forces, and most importantly for the frontline neighbourhood police officers. In previous blogs I have … Continue reading
The social media challenge for policing
A detective from Norfolk police has said that his investigation into the murder of a pub landlady was hampered by social media. He said it was the first time that social media rumours had caused problems for an investigation. The … Continue reading
To Tweet or Not To Tweet
That is the question. There is a lot of consternation about the use of Twitter by people in meetings particularly when they are internal meetings. We are now seeing an acceptance of the use of Twitter to share details of … Continue reading
How #gmp24 happened
The challenge was to find a way to show people the wide range of issues the police are called to deal with. There were many possibilities – for example, to release statistics and information about crime and incidents over a … Continue reading
