The Virtual Policing project: Local policing for local people
Yesterday we hosted a catch-up workshop/meeting for the members of the Virtual Policing project, which is looking at how a number of Sussex police officers can use a range of social media to engage...
View ArticleSocial web tools for neighbourhood policing
Last week I wrote a post about our Virtual Policing project that we’re involved in with Sussex Police. We had a long and productive meeting with the team members and I’ve already started to sketch out...
View ArticleHow bloggers and police countered riot rumours in Wolverhampton
This is a follow-up to a post I wrote about the riots a few days ago – where I tried to highlight some of the good things to come from the use of social media at the time. One of the examples I cited...
View ArticleThe next user group: 1st of December, 2011
Firstly, an apology: We suggested – as it turns out ambitiously – that we’d write a quick post about our plans for the user group before the end of last week – as you can see from this tweet… Well, as...
View ArticlePolice and crime commissioners: crib sheet
This post is just to an accompaniment to my piece about police and crime commissioners. It rounds up information I’ve collected on the new body that I hope others will find useful… Police and crime...
View ArticleWhat the PCCs can mean for engagement
At Public-i we’ve started talking to a number of police authorities, the agencies that will be replaced by the offices of police and crime commissioners (PCCs) when they are elected on the 15th of...
View ArticleMapping candidates for the Police and Crime Commissioner elections
The very, very nice people at the Police Foundation let us use the data they’ve diligently collected here to create a map of police and crime commissioner prospective candidates. This follows a chat on...
View ArticleMy 10 things from BlueLightCamp
On Sunday Dave Eaton and I attended the BlueLightCamp, a gathering of people interested in innovation in the emergency services. As you might expect with a meeting of people from across ‘blue-light’...
View ArticleMaking a song and a dance about the Police and Crime Commissioner elections
It doesn’t matter how important you accept the advent of the Police and Crime Commissioners are, the prospect of voting in a new political post to oversee police forces in England and Wales has hardly...
View ArticleHow many PCCs are using Twitter – and how are they using it? Some numbers!
Just before Christmas my colleague Andy Baker rustled up a Twitter list of all the police and crime commissioners on Twitter that we could find. Now we’ve used that to have a quick look at how the...
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