Greater Manchester Police do a "twitter day"

seamus

http://twitter.com/gmp24_1

Basically they've decided to use twitter to stick up a summary of every call they receive today. Thought it might be appreciated here.

From just look at the feed, it seems to be mostly composed of
1. Complaints about threatening behaviour or violence against a person.
2. Reports of various thefts (shoplifting in particular)
3. Traffic incidents
4. Nuisance or "advice" calls.

oglaigh

call 1436 tent erected on church grounds in Rochdale #gmp24 about 5 hours ago via web

Very random

call 1407 information request about Twitter day #gmp24

lol

call 1417 Advice requested about the age of babysitters, Stockport #gmp24

eh what?

call 1634 suspicious men carrying a snake, Bolton #gmp24

Have a very funny mental picture in my head:)

update re call 1165 human excrement smeared over police car handles #gmp24

lovely......

Call 814 Call from a man who hadn't recieved his benefits #gmp24

ie total time waster!


Cheers for posting, excellent idea IMO.

meathstevie

All in all a good reflection of a normal day in policing land..

Irish_polizei

Its a great idea initiative if i do say so, really opens the publics eyes to the wide variety of genuine, right down to the plain and simple stupid calls dealt with! Ringing about social welfare there for example :rolleyes: Some PSNI facebook pages have introduced a similar kind of thing except they tally up the arrests and give minor details of the particular arrest.

eg..
"Response officers stopped and searched a vehicle at Queens Parade last night following the report of persons setting off fireworks. 12 packets of fireworks seized and the occupants of the car reported for the offences "

MagicSean

I like the idea. It really does show where all the time goes on a shift.