Good effort by the Plod on Twitter during #alcoholharm night, highlighting the boozy incidents on Saturday night’s shift.
Sample: “drunk male has wet himself #alcoholharm” and so on.
OK, one Special managed to misspell the hashtag in all the excitement, but it was an interesting exercise nevertheless. Aufona has, however, begun to notice some discord over the Plod’s use of Twitter, with a few observers asking why some officers – one in particular – are tweeting upwards of 50 times on a shift. Coming at a time when the force was criticised for the time it has taken in the past to answer 999 calls, it’s little wonder people in some quarters find tweeting cops just a little irksome...
And finally, a Pope joke from busy Daventry MP @chhcalling: “To celebrate the new Pope & ex-Pope both being in residence, the Vatican canteen is to be renamed Frankie and Benny’s”.