tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56181400297782092692024-03-19T02:55:00.565+00:00National Police Web Managers GroupBlog for members of the National Police Web Managers' Group. We are people who work for police forces in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, maintaining, developing and improving police web services.Sasha Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941803798562384590noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-40234582879579325272012-01-18T18:08:00.002+00:002012-01-18T18:10:10.303+00:00Invitation to BlueLightCamp - 15th April 2012What is BlueLightCamp?BlueLightCamp is a totally new, day-long ‘unconference’ style event, taking place on Sunday 15th April 2012 between 9am and 5pm at Manchester Central exhibition centre. It will be a free, open and fluidic day of sharing experiences, thoughts and best practice across all Blue Light Services.
BlueLightCamp is working in partnership with British APCO to deliver this event Sasha Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941803798562384590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-80304991923061213292011-06-30T01:30:00.000+01:002011-06-30T01:30:15.792+01:00YouTubeI saw some Twitter conversations this evening asking how the police make use of YouTube so I though it was about time I put up a list of key information on the blog.
City of London Police
No YouTube
Metropolitan Police Service
http://www.youtube.com/metpoliceservice
Videos: 57
Channel Views: 64,900
Total Upload Views: 430,300
Joined: 1 Jul 2009
Subscribers: 910
Bedfordshire Police
http://David Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-11928547543473399442011-03-13T20:22:00.003+00:002011-03-13T20:29:36.692+00:00Facebook - update
Original map from last year (above)
It is 6 months since I assessed how many forces were making use of Facebook. In September 2010 there were 17 forces who didn't have a force page. Now, there are 6 new forces to Facebook. Of the last 11 forces without a facebook page, some are using Facebook for neighbourhoods, individual officers and even a police dog page.
New to Facebook
David Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-69376451268016111142011-02-07T22:49:00.000+00:002011-02-07T22:49:19.374+00:00Crime Mapping - A look at the beginning of the national system (Dec 2008)BackgroundHome Secretary Jacqui Smith announced on the 28th July 2008 that every neighbourhood in England and Wales would have access to the latest local crime information through new interactive crime maps.
ObjectivesThe requirement set by the Home Secretary was that by the end of 2008, as efficiently and effectively as possible, forces had to produce a crime mapping system that would Sasha Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941803798562384590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-18102613124427528062010-12-04T12:16:00.002+00:002010-12-04T12:20:20.867+00:00Mobile barcodesI am one of a growing number of people who own a smartphone and it has the ability to use the camera to scan a barcode which then links to a webpage. I thought this is worth passing on as it could be a useful addition to use in printed media. The website is http://www.barcodelink.net and here is a barcode I generated for free.
a barcode for
essex.police.uk
Could be useful for David Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-77271339337911934592010-10-31T22:10:00.002+00:002010-10-31T22:15:55.088+00:00Halloween posters and pumpkin patrol carsWell I think we made it through without getting the dreaded knock from witches, ghouls, ghosts and vampires this evening. I spent some quality time trawling through all the UK police websites, picking out all the halloween advice - specifically the 'no trick or treat' posters. I did this because in the past, there have been suggestions that money could easily be saved if police forces David Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-10729285642803359812010-10-17T13:11:00.003+01:002010-10-17T13:18:03.279+01:00Web forms - make it easyIn my years as a web developer I've spent an awful lot time building web forms. The biggest thing I've learnt from this is User Interaction - UI.The problem I've found is size. Working within the public sector - Police, every department seems to want to know everything and wants to know it depth.So they come to me for a web form. The quest for instant knowledge and information inevitably means John Braceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04088393392317919862noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-48594083020824076432010-10-10T22:14:00.005+01:002010-10-11T20:24:08.316+01:00Communication Teams and the Public
Bloggers VS Press Office Session
Having taken part in a session entitled 'Press Office vs Bloggers' at the recent #HyperWM event at Walsall College, and the 'Tweets' since the event, I have decided to write this blog to capture the issues and what can be learnt.
It was obvious from the start that there was going to be polarised opinion within the session between the bloggers in the room and theSasha Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941803798562384590noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-85261154276838265222010-10-05T22:34:00.010+01:002011-08-10T23:22:36.218+01:00List of Police Force and Police Authority Twitter AccountsFollowing is a list of the police force and police authority official Twitter sites.
Police Forces - England, Northern Ireland and Wales
Avon & Somerset Constabulary: http://twitter.com/ASPolice
Bedfordshire Police: http://twitter.com/bedspolice
Cambridgeshire Constabulary: http://twitter.com/cambscops
Cheshire Constabulary: http://twitter.com/cheshirepolice
City of London Sasha Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941803798562384590noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-82446848458191683552010-10-03T12:22:00.001+01:002010-10-03T12:25:08.561+01:00Twitter - followers September 2010
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This graph shows the number of followers during August compared with September for English and Welsh police services.
As can be seen from the graph, police services are getting an average of about 100 extra followers each month. Previous research showed that only about 50% of these are local businesses and public so this reduces the average to 50 relevant followersDavid Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-84516587910311524612010-09-27T16:29:00.011+01:002010-09-27T17:05:13.156+01:00Fun with metadataMany – possibly all of us – have long lists of police officers on our websites, mostly those attached to Safer Neighbourhood Teams. They’re a pain to maintain – but our usage stats show that members of the public do find them useful.Here’s one of ours:http://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1540 I’ve always felt the way we published ours was a bit unsophisticated. Essentially, Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03128962592252985426noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-48660633735440344582010-09-08T23:10:00.006+01:002010-09-08T23:59:10.695+01:00Facebook - police force pages
People who like official UK police Facebook sites - September 2010
Tonight, I thought I would post up the links to the police force pages on Facebook, including some organisational pages Facebook have put up for some police web services. Most of the content for these organisational pages seem to be sourced from Wikipedia. There are 26 official force sites at the moment.
City of London&David Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-58369751571387182632010-09-03T22:55:00.000+01:002010-09-03T22:55:05.144+01:00Twitter - un-followersI have some police stats to share for daily, weekly and monthly tweets and followers since the launch in May 2010.
The first chart shows cumulative counts of tweets and followers.
Target volumes for tweets are no more than 5 per day and this rate has remained constant.
The rate of followers has gradually increased. The slight drops are adjustments at the end of each month for those who David Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-10545831271782478572010-09-02T19:22:00.002+01:002010-09-02T19:30:52.824+01:00Twitter - who's following who?
From a sample of approx. 550 followers
September 2010
This is a bit of research I did this evening to investigate the different types of followers of a typical police Twitter channel. I looked at each follower and determined which of the nine categories they best fitted. The pie chart shows the most relevant category first (local public), moving round clockwise to the least relevantDavid Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-20524238429635248902010-08-30T21:22:00.000+01:002010-08-30T21:22:16.469+01:00Wildlife CrimeHeres a challenge to the National Police Web Managers from @Pigsonthewing via Twitter.
@Pigsonthewing has issued a blog appeal for all forces to provide some information about the role of their Wildlife Crime Officers on the police websites. Through some collaborative work via Google Docs, @pigsonthewing has compiled a spreadsheet of the forces showing those which have information about David Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-28674776799934493592010-08-30T00:25:00.001+01:002010-08-30T00:27:13.357+01:00You never see a police officer when you need oneThis blog is prompted by that age-old saying which is usually what causes people to request 'more bobbies on the beat' when asked how they would like the see the police improved.
View Mam Tor in a larger map
I think it has come to be a 'stock' answer for most people when asked such a question in public satisfaction surveys. Most people (thank goodness) don't get involved with the David Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-37382641600037663862010-08-30T00:12:00.000+01:002010-08-30T00:12:10.210+01:00Location-based social networking systems for Police Service?I am interested to see if the Police Service could use tools such as 4Square and Gowalla.
These are location based systems which enable users to 'check in' to a location, share this information with their friends within the systems and even to broadcast them to their Twitter and Facebook accounts. Below is a graphic explaining the differences between the two taken from an interesting blog by Sasha Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941803798562384590noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-12889913734063610952010-08-27T18:49:00.007+01:002010-08-27T20:30:32.397+01:00Black Spots - Road Safety InformationI would be interested in hearing from any force out there that is currently using an interactive map and video footage to help promote road black spots in relation to road safety. I would also like to hear from the community as to whether the proposal below is something that would interest people.I have been thinking about doing this for a while but thought that this might be something that we Sasha Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941803798562384590noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-93454794148829282010-08-25T20:58:00.000+01:002010-08-25T20:59:08.510+01:00National Guides around Social Media Setup and UsageOne of the things that I am looking to move forward within the National Police Web Managers Group is our strong belief of working in collaboration for the interest of all police forces.We have for a number of years been looking at collaboration and have worked on a number of projects such as the initial Crime Mapping system in 2008, the PNLD Ask the Police API to a name a couple.Many of us are Sasha Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14941803798562384590noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-5700184957906308612010-08-25T19:18:00.001+01:002010-08-25T21:29:09.286+01:00Calling all NPWM BloggersThis evening, Sasha will be making his first blog on this site. We would like many other Web Managers to contribute to this blog as well. The process requires you to be added which means we need to invite you via an email address. Please send an email to npwmg1 - at - gmail.com so we can invite you in. After that, please blog away to your heart's content!
We still have David Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-85127316020577211062010-08-21T20:49:00.001+01:002010-08-21T20:49:00.548+01:00Tesco v Police Stationshttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/7957168/Twice-as-many-Tescos-open-247-as-police-stations.html
This prompted some twitter conversation this evening so I thought I'd blog a bit about it.
For a start, I didn't believe there were more Tescos open 24 hours, seven days per week than police stations in Essex so I did a bit of research of my own. I even plotted the results inDavid Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-69549981644760139532010-08-21T20:48:00.002+01:002010-08-21T20:52:49.776+01:00Audioboo.fmI have added 5 audio clips to audioboo.fm this evening. This is in effect a trial for a suitable outlet for our audio clips alongside YouTube for our video clips.
Listen on audioboo.fm!
You can even embed it into a web page! You only have control over the width and height. It needs to be fairly wide otherwise the title text bunches up a bit. Not bad though.David Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-35595869441110132452010-08-21T20:47:00.011+01:002010-09-01T19:22:55.299+01:00Twitter stats
Police forces on Twitter - August 2010
This is a graph to show the forces who are using Twitter. The force with the most tweets on the left and the forces currently not using twitter on the right. Everyone else in the middle! Interesting to note is the range of tweets (red) compared with the followers (blue). Also, it seems not many forces feel it is important to follow thoseDavid Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-16391266938569437782010-08-21T20:47:00.004+01:002010-08-21T21:07:46.095+01:00ukpolcamp, crowdsourcing and npwmgI went onto Wikipedia to find out more about crowdsourcing after it was mentioned on Twitter.
"Crowdsourcing is the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, to a large group of people or community (a crowd), through an open call."I like this idea a lot. It appeals as a compromise between continuing development in isolation David Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5618140029778209269.post-82718063051728103532010-08-21T20:45:00.003+01:002010-08-21T21:05:31.474+01:00Online MeetingsLive Meetings
Just read that Nick Herbert MP is doing a live online Q&A session on www.number10.gov.uk on Monday Aug 2, 2010 at 11am, discussing 21st Century Policing. They will be using www.coveritlive.com
I tried out one of these online meetings which was hosted recently by Whitbey neighbourhood police officers. They ran it as a live text only meeting but Cover it Live can also David Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982105564708853812noreply@blogger.com0