UK Police To Get Facebook Lessons
jhernik writes "The police are to receive training on how to use Facebook and Twitter to catch people committing serious crimes. The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) will overhaul its training modules to include sessions on the social networking sites for detectives. 'This programme is a vital part of the career pathway for detectives and the new training covers sensitive areas of policing where limited guidance existed previously,' said deputy chief constable Nick Gargan, acting head of the NPIA, in a statement to the Press Association. 'These improvements are exactly what detectives need to tackle the challenges and complexities of modern policing effectively,' he added. 'The changes underline the importance to having a national agency to provide guidance and train detectives to a single high standard so they can work on investigations in any part of the country and give their colleagues and the public the best quality service in fighting crime.'"
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Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Perhaps people will stop posting incriminating evidence, but something tells me those photos of people plastered aren't going away.
That this method can't be foiled by simply changing the privacy settings or... say... not posting this sort of evidence in there.
Hey, maybe this'll encourage people to actually take privacy seriously. I'm pretty sure this'll never happen.
"serious crimes" like uploading a picture of your friend smoking weed, or your "5 days shy of 18" girlfriend in her underwear.
@Criminal ur nicked
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People are stupid and the law uses that against them. News at 11.
She'll calm down once he sends her some shit for her farm.
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Unless it's clearly child porn -
But it's total bullshit if any cops anywhere think they can arrest people for looking drunk, or being seen in a photo with a bottle of booze even if they're underage - or a photo of someone smoking something out of a bong or pipe - there is no way they could prove what the substance was, and while I am not sure about the UK, in the US our legal system hasn't eroded to that point yet, I am sure it probably will as we continue our descent into fascism and away from the rule of law.
it's bad enough that people think that the system works how it oes on TV and it's a hell of a rude awakening when you find out just how ridiculously fucked up it really is as it stands now.
Naw, that can't be right. You'd have to teach them to be able to read first.
...but I heard this on the RADIO two days ago. But anyway, if you're stupid enough to rob a bank or whatever and then update your facebook or twitter status "i just robbed a bank lol" then you deserve whats coming. I only bother with facebook about once every two weeks, and I find twitter to be absolutely useless.
This new development should have some effect on the reduction of free-roaming individuals mentioned in your sig.
On the other hand, according to mine, actual effects will be purely cosmetic.
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Some dumb people have called radio shows and say they robed a bank. So you can want to be able to use that in court and not have the case drooped as the cop did not do things right in getting the evidence.
Some dumb people have called radio shows and say they robed a bank.
I'd like to see that - it'd have to be a pretty big robe. Was there a wizard hat too?
So you can want to be able to use that in court and not have the case drooped as the cop did not do things right in getting the evidence.
Yeah, it's always embarrasing when your case starts to droop.
I hope they don't find the bodies that I buried on my Farmville.
So if this is the future...where's my jet pack?
When I read this summary, why does it read like a description of a South Park episode?
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
Who needs Facebook training? Are the police so stupid they can't figure out how to use Facebook?
There are all sorts of hypothetical counter examples which have not yet happened, meanwhile we have oxygen thieves like this guy, posting these sorts of messages (apologies for the long picture, nicked it from elsewhere.)
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5817/lancecolelol.png
They wouldn't suggest it if there weren't SOME kind of benefits.
Sounds like a room of requirement would be more useful than a talking hat
That must have taken a lot of fabric. No wonder the bank's tailor called in to a radio show to brag.
Dang, the cops are so lazy in the UK they don't even walk a beat
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Damn, the cops are so cool in the UK because they like to surf.
okay, sorry, i would be funnier, but i got arrested for a pic of me smoking weed on facebook and the cops came over and "confiscated" my stash.
Be seeing you...
Meet outside Main Street Bank at 5 tomorrow for #bankjob. LOL. BYO Shotgun and SWAG bag!
IMHO, those writing "stupid" laws rarely posses the necessary level of stupidity required for creating SUCH levels of fuckup.
Laws like that are more often the result of naivete and incompetence/ignorance than stupidity or malice.
And it would be rather difficult for a person with such qualities to single-handedly come into position where he/she would be able to create laws.
ALSO, laws tend not to be written or passed by a single person.
So, the "stupidity" doesn't have to be the product of one person or even a small group.
In the long run, the responsibility for such laws lies with that group of people we refer to as "citizens".
Particularly the ones on the right side of the IQ curve. You know... the "smart" and educated ones.
Either for letting such laws pass or for not challenging them later - they are the ones responsible.
As for those who enforce such laws, you can't really suggest that they should pick and choose which laws they should enforce and which not, right?
Cause it is not just their job to enforce them, but a LEGAL OBLIGATION as well.
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Hmmm.
I see an outstanding opportunity for trolling.
1. Create anon/pseudonymous account.
2. Use proxies and disposable email accounts.
3. Go data mining for undercover cops.
4. Track them, then notify everyone they add as a friend that they're a cop.
Hmmmm...
*clicks Post Anonymously*
I can't find anything on Google about it being illegal to reveal an undercover cop as such, but that doesn't mean they won't try to come after you.
Wonder how that would work!
A closed mouth gathers no foot.
NPIA tries to sound relevant after that it's been announced that they will be scrapped alongside many other "qango"s. Mentioning twitter and facebook guaranteed to get coverage in "old" media also trying to sound still relevant.
This summer I was working in Yellowstone National Park as a waiter. After my boss was sacked he left his car behind in the parking lot where it sat for weeks. Spotting an opportunity to improve my truck's antiquated radio player I asked former boss, on Facebook, if I could have his car's cd player. He said sure!. Actually he said, "Awesome, Go Mengele on the old girl!" Two weeks later I'm called into my employers office and met by two Park Police Officers, who say, "We know what you did, we read about it on Facebook." I had no clue what they were talking about, as it turns out they were trying to scare me with a vandalism charge as leverage to give them my former boss's contact information, so they could charge him with abandoning his car.
Someone please help me here, are people really so dumb? They're having to be taught how to use Facebook? Hell, an *un*trained monkey could use it! Oh, wait...these are probably people who proudly trumpet "I'm so not technical!" when faced with a modem that needs to be reset or "the internet is broken". How do these people drive cars or work ATM machines? How have they not died in household accidents? And these are *POLICE*!?
Baseless self confidence kills more people each year than bathtubs.
Just a funny thought, maybe they also need learn about Mafia Wars too. But seriously I think this is actually a good idea. Some crimes are even commited right inside Facebook like blackmailing.
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