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DCI Mark Payne 28 Jan 11
The Local Policing Unit from Birmingham South have been tweeting live incidents and their officers’ responses to them over a 24-hour-period. Armed only with a hashtag (#bsp24) and a new twitter account, they have ventured out into the world of social media. Judging by the excellent feedback they have received, I am sure they will be extremely pleased with the results.
Two weeks ago, I spoke to the Commander from Birmingham South, Phil Kay, and discussed the idea with him. He is really forward thinking and had already set the ball rolling with his communications team. At that point they had around 70 people following them on Twitter. By the end of the 24 hour output they had well over 1000.
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The Dan Slee Blog 31 Jan 11
More than a hundred UK councils are on the micro-blogging platform. That’s progress. Since late 2008 we’ve been using Twitter at Walsall Council to inform and engage.
More than 6,000 tweets on and there are a series of lessons we’ve learned…
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Liz Roberts BBC Midlands Today 23 Dec 10
Detailed Facebook status updates could increase the risk of people’s homes being burgled, West Midlands Police has warned. The force said anyone who shared details about their whereabouts could tip off thieves.
Teresa Bateman said she was burgled twice in the summer and believed it was linked to her sons’ Facebook updates. Facebook said the risk of sharing information was no greater online than via any other form of communication…
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Roger McKenzie 24 Nov 10
The trade union movement is full of women and men who have a proud record of standing up for working people even when they are told that what they are doing is wrong.
Many of these women and men have managed to by-pass the gaze of the media and have just got on with their jobs. Some, have been unfortunate enough to face ridicule or even abuse in the media.
Just last week, I intervened in the controversy caused by a Councillor in Birmingham, an employer of a large number of UNISON members, who suggested that a certain writer and broadcaster should be stoned to death. During a live radio chat show it was suggested that I too should suffer a similar fate as the journalist. All because someone who was texting in apparently disagreed with me and UNISON on the subject…
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The Plastic Hippo 13 Nov 10
Doncaster is a long way from Thrace, Erdington is even further from Tehran and Twitter is a million miles away from a real conversation. However, the seemingly unstoppable influence of the 140 character bon mot now unites the Thracian leader of a slaves revolt, Robin Hood, an Iranian woman condemned to death by stoning and a very, very, very stupid Birmingham councillor.
Back in January, accountant Paul Chambers was trying to book a flight from Robin Hood airport near Doncaster to visit his girlfriend in Belfast. Frustrated and suffering from airport rage, he tweeted the following to his 600 followers:
“Crap! Robin Hood airport closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!”
In May, Chambers was prosecuted…
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Dan Wainwright Express & Star 24 Sep 10
One of my favourite things about the internet is finding people with far too much time on their hands.
I am aware that this is a rather ironic statement from a man sitting in his living room with a laptop scouring the web looking for people with too much time on their hands.
Take the brilliantly weird people on Twitter for example.
Someone has gone to the trouble of creating a Twitter account on behalf of bus company National Express West Midlands…
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Anna Blackaby B'ham Post 23 Sep 10
A spoof Twitter feed which announces bus cancellations due to rioting peasants and warns passengers not to engage with “hoodies” is causing a social media headache for National Express.
The Birmingham-based transport firm, which runs the vast majority of buses across the West Midlands, is appealing to Twitter to shut down the @Travel_WM account which has been falsely tweeting on its behalf…
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The Plastic Hippo 8 Sep 10
Smithy, the West Midlands Police twittering dog has, for some reason, incurred the wrath of the national press and those paragons of virtue, the Tax Payers Alliance. The black Labrador is mainly employed in sniffing out human remains but in his spare time shares his view of the universe with his increasing number of followers. His transgression, according to the TPA, is that he is wasting police time and resources. Are the TPA barking mad?
The answer is yes.
Clearly, the West Midlands Constabulary have a greater understanding of social media, irony, wit, intelligence and engagement than the unrepresentative Tax Payers Alliance could ever hope to shake a stick at. The idea of a police dog with a Twitter account is nothing short of genius. Amid the trivia, there are serious tweets regarding ongoing investigations and a genuine interaction with the public. West Midlands Police deserve great credit in embracing social media as a tool to combat crime and the growing numbers of officers joining internet networks can only be a good thing, not just for accountability, but also for law and order. A dog on Twitter is a PR triumph that gives a cute, canine face to a vital service that is still wrongly viewed with suspicion in certain sections of the community…
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B'ham Mail 8 Sep 10
West Midlands Police has been accused of wasting officers’ time – by the TaxPayer’s Alliance – by setting up a Twitter page for a crime-fighting sniffer dog.
Their two-year-old Labrador Smithy, who has been dubbed an internet scent-sation, now regularly posts tweets on the social netwoking site.
Smithy’s ‘trainer’, West Midlands PC Terry Arnett claimed the Twitter page was all the dog’s idea…
Walsall Police Twitter users
@fraser9529wmp Superintendent Keith Fraser, Head of local policing for the Walsall Borough
@PSGreenfieldWMP Sergeant Barry Greenfield, Walsall Police
@WSLicensingWMP Sergeant John De-Hayes, Walsall Borough Licensing Team - Blog
@GinalycettWMP Gina Lycett, WMP Communications officer Walsall
@PC20873STAUNTON PC Joanne Staunton, Aldridge
@carlossteve9251 Sergeant Carl Steventon, Bloxwich
@jimnixonWMP1408 Sergeant Jim Nixon, Coalpool – Blog
@PCSOSkinnerWMP PCSO Samantha Skinner, Walsall Wood
@TonyBantonWMP Inspector Anthony Banton, Willenhall and Darlaston
Walsall Police on Facebook
Walsall Borough Police Schools Officers
Other useful WM Police Twitter users
@CIPayneWMPolice Detective Chief Inspector Mark Payne - Blog
@ACCatWMPolice Assistant Chief Constable Gordon Scobbie
@ACCDavenport Assistant Chief Constable
@mattmarkham1 Chief Inspector Matt Markham, Head of Press & PR
@JoHuntWMP Joanne Hunt, Communications Manager
@WMPolice WM Police corporate Twitter account
@WMPcsidogsmithy WM Police dog Smithy
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Jonny Greatrex Mercury 5 Sep 10
A crime-fighting police sniffer dog is set to become an internet scent-sation after starting his own Twitter page.
Smithy the two-year-old black Labrador is used by West Midlands officers to detect blood or human remains. The CSI-style pooch is, of course, following in the rich tradition of other crime-fighting dogs – including Scooby-Doo and Deputy Dawg…