Just before Christmas my colleague Andy Baker rustled up a Twitter list of all the police and crime commissioners on Twitter that we could find. Now we've used that to have a quick look at how the commissioners are using Twitter. I'm not going to pretend that any of this is scientific - or that ...
A few posts ago we wrote about the pop video brought out in Lancashire to remind people about the elections for Police and Crime Commissioner elections in November. A couple of weeks ago I spoke to Naomi Walker, head of community engagement at Lancashire Police Authority, where the video was dreamed up as parf of the ...
At Public-i we've started talking to a number of police authorities, the agencies that will be replaced by the offices of police and crime commissioners (PCCs) when they are elected on the 15th of November this year (2012). The PCCs will take over responsibility for overseeing 41 police forces on the 16th of November, signalling a ...
This post is just to an accompaniment to my piece about police and crime commissioners. It rounds up information I've collected on the new body that I hope others will find useful… Police and crime commissioners will take over responsibility for overseeing police forces from police authorities, following their election on the 15th of November this ...
Clearly I will be a mass of opinions about the crimemapping data once I can actually get on the site (presently showing no policing in my area but I know this is not true!) but my initial reaction is why oh why did they not launch this more quietly as a beta where we would ...