Ballymena PACT opts for Twitter & Facebook

A LOCAL community policing initiative is to set up a networking site on both Twitter and Facebook in a concerted bid to consult more widely with residents throughout the Ballymena borough and find out more about their policing priorities.
By The Newsroom
Published 8th Jan 2010, 14:13 BST
Updated 11th Jan 2010, 13:26 BST

PACT (Ballymena Partners & CommunitiesTogether) currently meets every three months to do just that.

Through PACT, police and other agencies get together with local communities to identify priorities, explore solutions and take action.

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Aware, however, that not everyone who wants to get involved can make it to the meetings, PACT has decided to set up a site on Facebook and Twitter.

Ballymena PSNI Inspector Pete Bouma said: “This will not be a way for people to report crime - it will simply be a way of extending our consultation with communities, of engaging in conversation with people who, maybe, can’t get to our meetings but have something valuable to say.

“The Partners and Community Together process is working well in Ballymena but we need local communities to help us focus our resources to best effect.

“We can then work with other agencies and partners to reduce harm in your area,” said Inspector Bouma.

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He continued: “The successes we have had and the solutions we have come up with are not necessarily down to the police but to the people taking ownership of the initiatives”.

Inspector Bouma added that PACT’s sites on Twitter and Facebook would soon be up and running and that their links will be advertised on the psni’s website shortly.

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