Police hunting for criminals on Facebook
Posted on 21 Apr 2008 at 10:49
The police have developed a new Facebook application which asks the public for information on local criminals.
The Greater Manchester Police have released the GMP Updates application, which highlights unsolved cases in the Greater Manchester area and shows YouTube clips of unsolved crimes.
If a user has any tips or information for the police on a particular event they can send them instantly via the "Submit Intelligence" feature.
"I think it's rather sad that getting the attention of civilians has resorted to Facebook applications. It's a really touching idea though," says one Facebook user, Ed Neville, on the group wall.
The move may be innovative, but at the time of writing the group had only 69 members, which may limit its crime-fighting potential somewhat.
The new application is the first of its kind, but is not the first time that the social networking site has had a brush with the law. Last year a man was jailed for breaking a restraining order that prohibited him from contacting his wife when he accidentally messaged her through the site.
The GMP has previously launched a video upload site allowing members of the public to report crimes by uploading footage of them occurring.
Author: Matthew Sparkes
advertisement
- Need a bit of extra Christmas cash? Grass up your boss, says BSA
- Photoshop Mobile on Android review: first look
- ATI Radeon HD 5970: 42% more expensive in the UK
- Office 2010 Beta – 32-bit or 64-bit – The Choice is Clear
- Why Britain's watchdogs have fewer teeth than goldfish
- Tabbed documents: how to make Office 2010 great
- Outlook 2010 People Pane – does it spell death to Xobni
- Microsoft Outlook 2010 screenshots
- Co-Authoring in Word 2010 and SharePoint Foundation 2010
- Microsoft Outlook 2010 screenshots: Backstage view
- Getting to grips with Microsoft's IT Health Environment Scanner
- Virtualise your servers
- The changing face of travel gadgets
- Build your own distributed file system
- The bulletproof Dell that costs an arm and a leg
- Microsoft Office 2010 Technical Preview: Q&A
- Lawnmowers, the TyTN II and one odd insurance request
- There'll never be a bulletproof OS
- How far can we trust apps?
- Five nice touches in Outlook 2010
advertisement
Printed from www.pcpro.co.uk


