UP Police gets 2 million followers on Twitter

LUCKNOW: UP Police clocked 2 million followers on Twitter, making it the second most followed police handle in the country after Mumbai Police.
A senior police officer said, “We first started the practice of uploading video bytes of district SPs/IGs and ADG zones on social media, depending on the criticality of a case and the byte of ADG law & order from the DGP headquarters in a state-level matter, as a result of which 20,000 video bytes have been uploaded on social media from January 1, 2020, which is a record of sorts”.

“This practice of immediately uploading video bytes of officers on Twitter is unique to UP Police and is rarely resorted to by other state police organizations,” said a senior police officer.
In its eventful journey on Twitter in the last five years, UP Police Twitter handle has gained 498 million impressions, 1.59 million retweets and 5.9 million likes, adding 1.7 million new followers.
DGP UP Mukul Goel said, “As per the directions of chief minister, we remain highly responsive on social media and the headquarters monitors the smallest of incidents in the state 24x7 and the version of officers are uploaded in real-time to inform people and media about the reality and the action taken and to prevent distortion of narrative.”
ADG (LO) Prashant Kumar said that in a recent episode in Kanpur Dehat in which a policeman had lathi-charged a man carrying a child on December 9, there were three tweets from UP Police handle with a template followed by video bytes of addl SP/SP on the same day at 11:47pm, 11:52pm and 12.05am and another tweet on 4:45pm and then the next day, with a video byte of the IG detailing the entire incident and the action taken, which reflects our alertness and response in any critical incident”.
Senior police officers said that ADG zones and IG ranges should also maintain a proactive presence on social media, monitoring the performance of the district police handles and ensuring that the smallest of incidents reported on social media are promptly replied to and the good work of the police is being adequately highlighted.