Northamptonshire Police will tweet details of the calls its Force Control Room collects, for 24 hours in the build-up before Christmas.
The force carried out its first Twitterthon in September, which resulted in over 270,000 people seeing tweets regarding calls made to the police both on the emergency 999 number and the non-emergency 101 line.
There is a plan in place to hold a second Twitterthon on Wednesday, December 10, after the great success of the original.
The purpose of the next Twitterthon will be to alert residents of the various types of calls the force receives throughout December.
Chief Inspector Fay Tennet, who is in charge of the control room said: “The last Twitterthon we held was a great success and really showed people both the volume of calls we receive and the nature of the calls.
“I think people were really interested to see how our staff deals with major incidents and also surprised by the number of inappropriate calls we receive – particularly to the 999 line.
“It will be interesting now to show people the type of calls we get as Christmas approaches because we expect the next few weeks to be particularly busy ones for us.”
The Twitterthon will last from 7am on Wednesday, December 10 until 7am on Thursday, December 11.
Associates of Northamptonshire Police’s news and publishing team will tweet about events reported to the Force Control Room using the hashtag #FCR24 on the @northantspolice account throughout the occasion.
By Matt Hamblin
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