Just a quick blog in admiration of Greater Manchester Police’s PR coup yesterday. A bold and simple idea which made great use of Twitter and media relations to raise awareness of the day to day service our police forces provide.

I am biased by the way. My husband is a police officer and for the past 14 years I have become accustomed to the baffling variety of things he is asked to deal with, from closing the roads in snow and locating missing livestock, to attending post mortems and investigating serious crimes. It’s the sheer volume and variety of responsibilities that makes policing such a complicated and contentious issue. Where we will ever find enough resources to fund this inexhaustible supply of stuff to deal with? Human beings are endlessly creative when it comes to getting themselves in bother it seems to me.