UK police publishes incidents on Twitter by Magdalena Rosova

One of the biggest police forces in Britain is posting every incident that it deals with on Twitter. On its Twitter you can read about every incident, from stolen car to suspicious smell. The Twitter campaign shows that police are under the pressure as British officials want to provide a deep budget cuts. Chief Constable Peter Fahy of Manchester said in a message that was posted to YouTube, that the reality of police work was much more than just a crime. Of course, it is the biggest part of the work of police, but they do much more besides. Peter Fahy called police an agency of last resort saying that big part of their work was related to wider social problems of alcohol, d! rugs, mental health and people dealing with relationship problems. The Twitter project started at 5:00 a.m. Thursday and up to know the police has posted more than 1,300 different incidents. Among the first news there was an alert about a stolen vehicle thought to be headed for Manchester or the arrest of an aggressive shoplifter or a report of a man appears asleep at bus stop. Greater Manchester Police is one of the biggest police forces in the country, its responsibility is for a 1,300 square kilometer area. Most of Thursday's calls were ordinary cases, part of daily grind of police work. Many tweets were about domestic incidents, traffic accidents, stolen cars or missing people. Among the tweets there were also calls about aimals or complaints about a man urinating against a school wall.

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