Police using twitter at events like Wimbledon Tennis

For the next two weeks I will be tweeting Police public information messages for Wimbledon Tennis. This exercise is being done to show ACPO, Silver & Gold Commanders how twitter can be used to assist in policing large pre-planned events. Surrey Police earlier this year started to use twitter for the PGA Wentworth Golf tournament and the Epsom Derby.

Most of the messages should be scheduled before the event to go out automatically at different times of the day. This leaves the officers free to police the event without having to worry about typing tweets on the street.

In my next blog post I will explain the planning that is required, topics to be covered and issues to be considered. I hope you can use this exercise to help you start using twitter at your local large events. You can follow my Wimbledon Tennis tweets on @multizonecraig or at the bottom of our www.multizone.co.uk homepage where you can see my twitter feed.