The goal of this class is to “Provide departments with the tool and information that they need to have a useful social media presence and good quality community engagement. To show that Social Media is a wonderful Community Policing tool and can be utilized in many ways to help, share information, help crimes be solved, introduce the public to staff, and allow the public a way to get behind and stand with local departments.

Students will learn:

• Basic to-do and not to-do
• what other departments are doing well, and poorly
• algorithms and their relevance
• trending items and how to use them
• hashtag usage
• consequences of poor social media choices
• characteristics needed for social media engagement
• perception vs. reality in teh social media realm
• about receiving gifts
• and more

Student Testimonials:

“Excellent class for all agencies to learn about how to use social media for a benefit”