Manchester police tweet 999 calls
Greater Manchester police launched an interesting initiative recently by tweeting all of the 999 calls they received.
The force tweeted every report made from 5 a.m. on Thursday until 5 a.m. on Friday to demonstrate the amount and variety of calls police dealt with.
Do you think this is a good idea?
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Whilst it's all very interesting, they presumably already knew that they took a lot of - and a wide variety of - calls.
I'm not sure I understand the purpose, and couldn't the police time of entering all these tweets have been better spent?
Paul
I think it was done more to highlight to the public the amount and variety of calls they receive.
Broadly speaking I think this is quite a nice idea, although I would want to know how much time is spent on the job. Although thinking about it, presumably calls are logged textually in a database of some kind anyway, so maybe it's an automated process.
I can see why they did it, but if I'd been mugged or whatever and that fact had been tweeted. I'd be mightily annoyed by that.