UK Police To Get Facebook Lessons 63
jhernik writes "The police are to receive training on how to use Facebook and Twitter to catch people committing serious crimes. The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) will overhaul its training modules to include sessions on the social networking sites for detectives. 'This programme is a vital part of the career pathway for detectives and the new training covers sensitive areas of policing where limited guidance existed previously,' said deputy chief constable Nick Gargan, acting head of the NPIA, in a statement to the Press Association. 'These improvements are exactly what detectives need to tackle the challenges and complexities of modern policing effectively,' he added. 'The changes underline the importance to having a national agency to provide guidance and train detectives to a single high standard so they can work on investigations in any part of the country and give their colleagues and the public the best quality service in fighting crime.'"
Re:A picture doesn't prove anything... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Right... (Score:3, Informative)
Weed really isn't a huge deal in the UK, where this story is from. If a cop catches you with some, they will "arrest and then de-arrest" you at the side of the road/in the pub/wherever you are and give you a street caution for it, then just confiscate the stuff. If you clearly have enough to be a dealer, they will arrest you properly. Having enough for personal use on you is just not all that serious at all - the cops just don't have the time to be dealing with that petty crap.
Re:Are They Really That Stupid (Score:5, Informative)
covering such things as
1 beginning a chain of evidence (and keeping it intact)
2 creating a useable record of the page(s)
3 how to get the info you need without blowing your cover or tripping the entrapment trap
4 properly citing the pages in reports
ect
Re:Right... (Score:3, Informative)
Was that in the British press?
That well known source of objective coverage of UK events.
It's really not as bad as the Daily Fail and others like to make out.