Tweeting Police Man Online Q&A
21 June 2011 by Visit Scunthorpe Editors
Neighbourhood sergeant for Scunthorpe South, our very own Tweeting Bobby will be going online in Humberside police's first ever virtual forum on the 29th June.
Sargent James Main has already become very popular online getting over 1,000 twitter followers in just a few weeks having launched his twitter account specifically aimed at keeping in touch with the public more.
At the time we thought that this was a great idea, though other sections of the more traditional media took a while to come round to the idea and see the benefits (choosing to do a particularly unimaginative twitter parody instead). The same progressive forethought can be seen again in the next step on Humberside Police's social media road map, lets just hope the Evening Telegraph are more supportive of this venture than they were with the twitter launch.
Again, this is a first for Humberside Police, and demonstrates just how social media can help to forge links between the residents in the community and community policing teams.
As regular readers will know, Visit Scunthorpe is all for this use of media, having last year pioneered on line broadcasting from two council meetings, we'd encourage every one who can find the time to tune in to Sgt Main's broadcast on the 29th of June.
Modern technology is all about communication, and giving the public access to resources. These may be alternatives to the main stream media reporting events locally, nationally, or opportunities to interact with councillors, public officials and those who provide protection and service to the public like the police.
This is a brave pilot scheme that Sgt Main has embarked on, but in an interview with Visit Scunthorpe last week, Sgt Main did tell us that on the whole all the comments he receives are positive and that the project to date has been well accepted by the public.
Sgt Main said "I appreciate that many people are busy and are not always available to attend public meetings, so the use of the virtual forums provides another means of communication with the public"
For more details of the virtual forum:
To follow Sgt James Main to Twitter:
Best of luck on the 29th!
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