Crewe police have joined the twittering classes to warn and inform residents.
Head of the neighbourhood policing unit Inspector Andy Smith said: "Twitter is now going to be part of the many ways we communicate with our residents and businesses.
"We will be tweeting about crime prevention, meetings and informing them about the work we are doing in their neighbourhood."
There is some criticism that this takes up valuable police time, but a tweet takes seconds to create so doesn′t interfere with officers′ daily duties.
Insp Smith added: "You won′t find our officers tweeting about what they had for lunch. This is purely an informative exercise.
"We hope this extra communication tool will help us to connect to another section of the public that we might be missing through our usual channels to help them understand the work we do in their community to keep them safe.
"Its also the ideal opportunity to find out their concerns so that we can tackle the issues that really matter to them."
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