Skegness and Coast Policing Area - 101

Skegness and Coast Policing Area page where you can keep up-to-date with our current news and appeals. Please do not report crime through Facebook

SOCIAL MEDIA RULES OF ENGAGEMENT.

Lincolnshire Police has a force Twitter feed, a number of individual Twitter user accounts, several Facebook pages and a Youtube Channel.

The accounts that are displayed if you click on the "Official Social Media Accounts" link above have been set up to give you as much information as possible on the work we are doing. They also give us the chance to highlight criminal activity in your area and pass on really important crime prevention messages.

We are here to have a conversation with you and we will join in as much as we can, but there are limitations in terms of the amount of time we can dedicate to it and the appropriateness of us discussing certain issues on a public forum.

We ask you to try and understand this and appreciate that sometimes we just cannot join in. So we will do our best to answer your questions, spark debate and be open with you, but there are times when we will not be able to reply, or we will ask you to call our 101 non-emergency number for official police guidance, communicate with us in private via email, or even just state that we are unable to express an opinion.

If we did not believe in the importance of freedom of speech we would not be here at all and we want to hear your honest opinions, but we also want this to be a family friendly forum where young people can join in. We will not respond positively to swearing, or discriminative language or viewpoints. If this does happen, we may be forced to remove posts.

These feeds and pages are also not places to report crime. That is not because we do not take them seriously – it is because we simply do not have the resources to monitor them 24/7 and if we miss anything lives could be put at risk. Always call 999 in an emergency when an immediate response is needed because a crime is in progress; someone suspected of a crime is nearby; when there is danger to life or when violence is being used or threatened. 101 should be used to report less urgent crime or disorder or for general police enquiries.

It may be that in the future we devote more time to social media, but that would mean taking on dedicated staff at a cost to the tax payer. What do you think? Should we put more resources into this area? Write to us at: web@lincs.pnn.police.uk

Updated: 15th February 2014

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