Artefact 3

I have started artefact 3,looking at the Police as a community as this is the job I hope to enter after graduationg & Simon said it would be both interesting and beneficial to me. I have looked at @leicspolice for this artefact as I have applied for this force.

With over 25,000 followers it makes it easy for people living in the small community of Leicestershire to keep up to date with the crimes and news happening. The tweets contain information about small crimes such as a robbery in a village to murderers being sentenced. Five, ten years ago without twitter this information would have been seen not as important to publish in the papers or on the news so wouldn't have been mentioned.

The local newspaper, The Leicester Mercury still keeps the community up to date on crimes for people whom may not use twitter, for example the older generation - who can still keep up to date with the local news on the TV and paper.
Also looking at Leicester Police website:

This shows the latest news along with job opportunities, I noticed the twitter account was used massively to advertise jobs coming up and seminars about roles for the Police. After applying for the force myself and learning how to difficult it is to gain a role within the Police, the fact they now advertise it on social networking sites allows so much more people to apply.