Watch Your Tweets, Brits - UK Police to Receive Special Social Network Training

Dirty divorces and devious debt collectors have relied on Facebook photos and tweets to prove their cases against defendants, but criminal cases using social media as evidence have been far less numerous - albeit receiving much more press. This may all change as the UK introduces some new social media training for its police force.

Divorce lawyers and debt collectors have relied on Facebook photos and tweets to prove their cases against defendants, but criminal cases using social media as evidence have been far less numerous – albeit receiving much more press. This may all change as the UK introduces some new social media training for its police force.

In the past, law enforcement has generally been reactive online rather than proactive. Remember the biker who was saved because of her tweets? Rescue services were only made aware of her nasty spill through several phone calls from the biker’s Twitter followers.

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