Gurgaon: In the first, the Faridabad police social media lab conducted a 20-day trial to find out whether sharing information about crime on Twitter helped the police to solve them or perfect their strategies.
While measuring the impact on the user, it was found that while most people felt safe with stories about criminal arrest, a small number tried to communicate crime.
And in most cases, the tip-off provided on the social media platform is not proven to be widely used for the police.
Experiments were carried out between June 8 and June 28 where 96 tweet posted on various crimes and arrests from the District Police’s official handle, @fbdpolice.
“Some tweets are funny stories,” said ACP Adarshdeep Singh, said Faridabad police spokesman, said.
Although the number of followers jumped 55%, from 38,000 to 60,000, during this period, the experiment tested whether the effort encouraged people to provide useful information for the prevention and detection of crime.
The police department also wants to check whether user participation increases if the content is served in a creative and funny way.
It was found that an interesting trial 6,562 comment, 3,702 quotes, 1.3 lakh likes and 48,500 retweets.
About 6,324 comments (99.2%) appreciate the police and positive work while 26 (0.4%) trying to have problems.
Around 3,779 comments (59.7%) praised the creation of funny stories about catching.
There is no information in comments even though helping the police solve crime or improve its strategy.
Police Commissioner Faridabad O P Singh said found that funny content helped multiply followers and increased the level of user activity exponentially.
“His findings, however, revealed that bullies, even a handful, try to dominate the discourse,” he added.
Singh said that the message sharing platform helped spread awareness and sharing information.
“However, they must have an algorithm to identify and block it does not make sense in real time,” he added.
The platform utility as a crime mircbrogging page is undeniable, said Singh.
But, as an interactive platform, it was found that there was no value in terms of information that could help prevent crime, he added.
Faridabad police run Twitter experiments during the arrest, find ‘tip-off’ which is not widely used
