Social media for community policing

This is the sixth in a series of posts based on the recent COMPOSITE report on police use of social media across Europe. The police are the public and the public are the police Robert Peel’s most quoted fundamental principle is proving even more relevant in the age of social media. Community policing – embodied in […]
New app helps Manchester people get closer to their community policing teams

Greater Manchester Police have just released a new app which uses geo-location technology to allow Mancunians to become crimefighters and to get closer to their local neighbourhood policing teams. The Apple version of the app was released last month with an Android version promised for Spring. This review of the new smartphone app produced by Greater […]