This is the first in a series of video’s shot at the Social Media in Law Enforcement Conference, Santa Monica, California – Jan 10-12 2011. This features social media strategist Mike Vallez talking about mobile facial recognition.

Mike can be contacted at michael.vallez@altegrity.com

Just an amazingly cool app! Now if only it did German and french….

“We need to educate ourselves to provide the services in the way that the public wants”

Rt Hon Francis Maude MP, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, speaking at the 2020 RSA Public Services Summit on 9 Nov 2010 about the future of UK public service delivery.

Powerful, powerful advert compilation

When Australian police couldn’t find a man who was harassing his ex-partner, they served him with a restraining order using the same medium he was bullying her in: Facebook. A police officer, with a court’s approval, filmed himself reading the order and sent the video to the man’s Facebook account, the Age reports. The order, which was deemed served, also required the man to take down his account.

Police say that when they caught up with the man, he confirmed that the messages had been received. The harassment has now stopped. “We used the same methods to catch ...

Turn it Off from Nigel Upchurch on Vimeo.

Interesting and thought provoking article from the Huffington Post which asks why banks and other industries still ask for ‘traditional’ identification details (address, landline telephone number – FYI 25% of Americans no longer have a traditional landline phone!) yet ignore modern identifiers such as twitter, facebook etc, that would probably yield more actionable (and mineable) data.

Worth thinking about in terms of public sector brand positioning and customer segment analysis. Is the public sector making use of this sort of data? Should it? Why not…?

The world famous Mayo Clinic has taken the healthcare initiative and started a Social Media Center focused on healthcare.

The United States Department of Defense has created a Social Media Hub for military related issues

Who will sieze the moment and create one for UK policing?

The Home Office has launched a consultation asking for opinions on government plans to overhaul the current licensing regime, in order to give more power to local authorities and police. The aim is to deal more effectively with alcohol-related crime and disorder, while also promoting responsible business.

The proposals include:

overhauling the Licensing Act to give local authorities and the police much stronger powers to remove licences from, or refuse to grant licences to premises that are causing problems allowing councils and the police to permanently shut down any shop or bar that is repeatedly selling alcohol to children doubling the maximum fine ...

Software that can predict when and where future violent crimes will be committed is being used in Britain for the first time.

Two police forces have begun trialling the sophisticated programme, which has echoes of the Tom Cruise film Minority Report, where psychics are used to stop criminals before they commit a crime. The system, known as Crush (Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History) evaluates crime records, intelligence briefings, offender profiles and even weather reports, to identify potential flashpoints where a crime is most likely to occur.

The “predictive analytics” technology has been credited as a key factor behind a 31 per cent fall ...