Social Media in GMP

Kevin HoyGreater Manchester Police

Social media in GMP

GMP24 – Twitter Day“Raise awareness of the diverse and complex role of

policing, explaining how much time officers spend with non-crime matters”

Logistics of 24 hour Tweeting• 24 hours would be broken

down into 3 shifts• 2 teams of 2 would alternate

to update Twitter each shift• Each call would be

numbered and tagged #gmp24

• The feeds would be available directly from our website and intranet

Out-Tweeting Twitter• Too many Tweets

would send us to Twitter jail

• Twitter HQ said it was a global rule and could not be altered

• Solution: set up multiple Twitter accounts, switching between as we were jailed

Twitter Day

Keeping it together

Moving on from GMP24

• Providing information at a local level• Sharing with hyper-local sites

Crime maps• National crime

mapping system• Details of all

crime recorded previous month

• Data is ‘normalised’ to protect identities

• All data available to download