How are you going to be brave moving into the new social media world?
Opportunities in neighbourhood policing
Here we go - Digital Engagement at #polcasm no taxpayer money used to put this event on - sponsor organisations (like us) are making it so
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ACC Scobbie started to talk about Innovation and value for money, but there was much more to it than that. He was making a call to action abundantly aimed at the mostly senior polcing audience and reinforced it by showing his own journey
Because @ACCatWMPolice had to get someone to show him how to use an iPhone hes ideal for representing the interests of technology adoption!multizone
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He alluded to the Opportunity to use technology to support neighbourhood policing (which is something that we at Multizone have total agreement with).
On #gmp24
There is no doubt that there are many opportunities arising from #gmp24. It was, he said, a Fantastic piece of work last week with the #gmp24 999 calls experiment
The question he raised was 'What are the other opportunities to build upon that and exploit the technologies further?'
The challenge he set for consultants and vendors and senior officers was 'How to make it different enough to capture the imagination again?'
He said that perhaps we should be thinking about exposing the things that are hidden from the public, that the public take for granted. How can we start to use the technology to help the public get involved by sharing that with the public.
Technology Vendors
ACPO is taking a strategic initiative in working with technology vendors to get input on what is coming. Multizone advises an element of cautious sceptisicm. They will see opportunities for grand large expensive projects. This is not a criticism, it is just in their nature.
Be Brave
ACC Scobbie really did ask the assembled policing professionals to be brave. It never struck me that any police officer was anything but brave. What it reveals is the scale of the journey here and how big some of the steps are!
This is the time to be brave says @ACCatWMPolice at #polcasm. No sense of irony. All Police Officers are brave! Comes with the job.multizone
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The challenge of the Big Society
Policing is seen to be (according to the home office)
- accountable to whitehall not the public
- police profesisonals are disempowered
- police not visible or available
- less resources
David Cameron said Big Society 'is about huge culture change in which people dont always turn to officials.....'
Home office see this as about decentralising power, introducing Police and crime commissioners, removal of central targets
Fostering local Involvement
- crime reporting
- voting on commisisoners
- using information to challenge services at meetings
- being active on a street patrol (like @streetwatch)
How does it all join up?
@jimsmithobe asked - How does it all join up? Wel he asked a longer question but @nickkeane summarised it nicelty!
The home office spoke about the Minister for localism who owns big society and claimed he has a mandate to force this level of change through across all agencies - for example the NHS just as much as the police. If you believe that then the only way to engage with these organisations will be at a community level using social tools. Because they will be the common toolls that members of the public are using.
What is unanswered in all this is just how quickly and with what governance it could be achieved. The disinterested majority will have to be taken account of. They require public services even if they are unable or unwilling to be self organising communities.
