Evening All…Facebookers and Welcome to 21st century policing.
posted by Glen Stidolph in Outsourcing |
Last week, Greater Manchester Police became the first U.K. police force to establish a presence on Facebook. Greater Manchester Police established an application called GMP Updates on Facebook, providing users with crime news, appeals and missing-persons stories.
Individual stories can be shared with a user’s contacts and users can add comments to the feed. The application also links users to an external Web site where they can anonymously submit information on crimes or view YouTube videos related to ongoing investigations.
An excellent idea on how to ‘outsource’ criminal investigation, a genuine attempt at bringing some of the communal policing that we used to have when I was a kid, or a sinister plot to develop information about the contacts of people possibly involved in criminal activities…..
As I can’t believe that people involved in criminal activities are stupid enough to add the GMP application, I have to believe in their good intentions and compliment them on their vision to use the extended reach of this social network to assist them. Community policing for the 21st century.
