DENVER POLICE DEPARTMENT

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

 Date:         August 14, 2009

To:            All Denver Police Officers, Media, Denver City Council, and Denver Community Associations.

Contact:   Sonny Jackson

Address:  Office of the Chief

                  1331 Cherokee St., Denver, CO 80204

Phone:     720-913-6534

Fax:           720-913-7021

Denver Police Department on Twitter

The Denver Police Department would like the community to know they can now follow the DPD on Twitter. The Denver community can receive daily information regarding criminal matters, laws, police actions and just good information. We have been operating on Twitter on trial basis for the past two months. DPD's Twitter account surpassed 900 followers.  This group includes DPD Officers, city employees, community members, media outlets, and even two people in Tehran, IRAN.  Although 900 may not seem like much in a city of 600,000, consider that some of our messages have been repeated to tens of thousands of people around the world.

Every day, the DPD Media Relations Unit sends out messages (140 characters or less) on a variety of topics (calls and cases you may have worked, the law, facts about the department, commendable actions, etc.).  And we have become one of the fastest growing police agencies in the world! (DPD is currently #21 in the world for police departments on Twitter)

Denver Police welcome you to follow us if you have not yet created a Twitter account to keep up with what is happening in our department it is simple and free (see directions below):

1.      Go to www.twitter.com  

2.      Click the GREEN button on the center of the page which says, "Get Started - Join"

3.      You will be directed to fill out your name, choose a "username" (this can be a nickname or something you just make up), a password, a valid email account, and then type in the text shown (to make sure you are a person not a computer)

4.      The next page will ask if you want to see if your friends are on Twitter.  You can either check or click "CONTINUE" to move on

5.      On the upper right hand corner is a link called "Find people" Click that and type DENVERPOLICE (no space).  Then click follow - and that is it!