Tweeting to help fight crime (From Oxford Mail)
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Tweeting to help fight crime
4:16pm Tuesday 31st January 2012 in Bicester
Tweeting to help fight crime
A BICESTER police officer is planning to fight crime with technology as she gears up to use social networking service Twitter in the town.
Sgt Nicki Entwistle, pictured, is fresh from training and will be the first officer in the town to tweet messages to help prevent crime, make appeals or issue warnings.
The idea is that people can be told instantaneously about incidents in and around Bicester.
Sgt Entwistle is urging people to follow her on the Twitter service.
She said: “We already do community messaging, but as people have such busy lives, this is another way of using technology to communicate.
“It will be very much about Bicester and what we are doing, how people can help us, or how we can help them. It’s a good way to get the message out, but I need people to follow me.”
If tweeting proves successful it could be rolled out to other Bicester officers.
To follow Sgt Entwistle, go to @tvp_bicester
Comments(6)
kelbun
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5:45pm Tue 31 Jan 12
What is a pictire?
OM in need of a decent proof reader I think!
simplicissimus
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7:30pm Tue 31 Jan 12
Better to get on the beat and keep eyes on the street and say "Hullo!" to citizenry, surely?
OK for keeping tabs on the odd illegal rave event, perhaps. But then action's needed to nip it in the bud.
Phian
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7:43pm Tue 31 Jan 12
Twitter is fairly ubiquitous nowadays so just because some of us have not taken to it that shouldn't prevent the Police using it. After all, not everyone uses a computer but more and more sources of information are available on-line.
snert
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8:20pm Tue 31 Jan 12
http://www.bbc.co.uk
/news/technology-168
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caversfield
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2:15am Fri 3 Feb 12
hagar1 says...
5:13pm Tue 31 Jan 12