Assistant Chief Constable Katie Barrow-Grint of Thames Valley Police discusses WeCops, a bi-weekly chat discussion on social media that aims to improve policing by connecting with the general public and officers across the country.
The chats cover various policing topics and have had a significant reach, with even the policing minister joining in.
WeCops has the capability to influence change and has led to policy changes in areas such as response policing and public order.
The team behind WeCops works hard to invite a diverse range of guests, including senior officers, academics, and frontline officers. They are also expanding their reach beyond Twitter and X by adding LinkedIn as a platform and planning their first in-person conference.
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Takeaways
WeCops is a bi-weekly chat discussion on social media that aims to improve policing by connecting with the general public and officers across the country.
The chats cover various policing topics and have a significant reach, with even the policing minister joining in.
WeCops has the capability to influence change and has led to policy changes in areas such as response policing and public order.
The team behind WeCops works hard to invite a diverse range of guests, including senior officers, academics, and frontline officers.
They are expanding their reach beyond Twitter and X by adding LinkedIn as a platform and planning their first in-person conference.
Sound Bites
“One of our chats actually over lockdown, I think it was, had a reach within the hour of over three million.”
“He regularly hosts chats on public order and he has changed the policy, the college policing policy around public order as a result of discussion that started in a WeCops chat.”
“We’ve got some brilliant speakers. Tom Gaymor is our host. We’ve got Maggie Bly from the college coming. We’ve got all sorts of different speakers who will come and talk about what they’ve done in terms of their own WeCops chats.”
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Nominated for an Award in Dubai
01:06 WeCops: A Bi-Weekly Chat Discussion on Social Media
04:46 Policy Changes Resulting from WeCops Discussions
06:12 Diverse Guests and Topics on WeCops
07:41 Expanding Reach and Adding LinkedIn as a Platform
08:38 The First In-Person WeCops Conference
10:29 Encouragement to Get Involved with WeCops
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