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Introduction: The Police and Social Media

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Social Media Strategy in Policing

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Social media have become a standard element in police work worldwide. This chapter provides an overview of the ways police forces employ social media from open source intelligence (OSINT) and community engagement to crisis communication. It further addresses a range of operational and ethical issues the use of social media raises when used by law enforcement agencies.

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  1. Communication and Computing Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

    David Waddington

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  1. CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research), Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

    Babak Akhgar  & Petra Saskia Bayerl  & 

  2. Civil Emergency Planning and Civil Protection, Hellenic Parliament, Athens, Greece

    George Leventakis

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Waddington, D. (2019). Introduction: The Police and Social Media. In: Akhgar, B., Bayerl, P.S., Leventakis, G. (eds) Social Media Strategy in Policing. Security Informatics and Law Enforcement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22002-0_1

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