UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 1, 2014 @06:00AM from the boys-of-the-surrey-pd-choir-were-singing-galway-bay dept.

An anonymous reader writes Sussex and Surrey police plan on fighting drunk driving with the help of twitter this Christmas. The police say that they will tweet details of accused intoxicated drivers, including: where, when, and who was stopped throughout December. From the article: "They're cruising the streets for embarrassing tweets. It's no secret that every year, the number of people driving under the influence of alcohol shoots up around Christmas. As part of its yearly crackdown, police in Sussex and Surrey are taking to Twitter to document the alcohol-related arrests they make on the road. Each snippet mentions where and when the motorist was pulled over, but also, more importantly, their name if they're eventually charged. Those who were stopped last year aren't getting off lightly either; officers are reportedly putting up posters to show exactly where motorists were caught over the limit."

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Re:Slander? by mythosaz · 2014-12-01 06:22 · Score: 3, Informative

Stops aren't tweeted. Just arrests, per TFS.
Not all people arrested are charged. Some are released after being arrested.
This is the same information that's been in the morning paper for decades.