{"id":14474,"date":"2014-06-27T06:51:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T04:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14474"},"modified":"2014-06-27T06:51:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T04:51:18","slug":"british-police-work-round-the-clock-to-patrol-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14474","title":{"rendered":"British police work round the clock to patrol social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Alex Marshall, head of the College of Policing, said the number of calls relating to social media represented &#8220;a real problem for people working on the frontline of policing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police officers can&#8217;t deal with every bit of nonsense or disagreement that occurs on social media,&#8221; he told BBC Radio.<\/p>\n<p>Antisocial behaviour and threats of assault are among the most common allegations, said Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed police training and enforcement by social media companies was needed to combat the problem. About 6000 officers are being trained to deal with online offences and identify when a pattern of behaviour requires further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It won&#8217;t be long before pretty much every investigation that the police conduct will have an online element to it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The director of public prosecutions has issued guidance to prosecutors to determine which cases should be treated as potentially criminal.<\/p>\n<p>They are also advised to look out for messages that constitute a &#8220;credible threat of violence &#8220;. &#8211; Daily Telegraph<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complaints arising from behaviour on Facebook, Twitter or other social media make up &#8220;at least half&#8221; of calls passed on to police officers in Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,3],"tags":[186,205,1548,9320,429],"class_list":["post-14474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-britain","tag-police","tag-social-media","tag-threats-of-violence","tag-twitter"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14475,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14474\/revisions\/14475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}