Police in 24-hour Twitter project

Name: Police in 24-hour Twitter project
Uploaded: 2010-10-14T10:07:29.000Z
Description: Greater Manchester Police started using Twitter to highlight the amount of work they deal with

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One of the UK's biggest police forces has begun using the social networking site Twitter to publicise every 999 incident it deals with over the next 24 hours.

Greater Manchester Police say it's so the public and politicians can see the complex job officers carry out on a daily basis.

Andy Tighe reports.

14 October 2010