Lets have a brief look at Flickr, what is being done and what else could you do?
Front page of a search for Police on Flickr.
11 Contacts, not a huge amount but at least they are making the effort to follow people, lets have a look at their contacts
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CC License Important. Allow sharing with your community
Nicely ordered and sorted sets of pictures
Interesting use of Flickr by West Yorkshire police
Join your local Flickr group(s) go to meetings and outings.
People like pictures of police vehicles.....
500 people in the villages covered by this site, 400 of them read it every day. What better way to get your message out.....
Ambridge is based on Parwich and a couple of other sites. Talk About Local advised the BBC script writers prior to Ambridge getting their own blog. Poor dead Nigel.
Community site centred on one estate in Tunstall which in recent months has grown to cover the local town as well. Local police press officer has a log in to the site and can post directly.