Social media have fundamentally changed our world and our actions and are increasingly shaping everyday police work.
Social networks are the number one source of information and the population's virtual clinical thermometer. No television crew is ready to report faster than the people on the ground with their smartphones.
For some years now, the police have been facing the great challenge of using the highly competitive virtual information market to their advantage. Of course, the aim is not to cut costs, increase profits and sales figures or win new customers. The police want to use social media, for example, to recruit new recruits or provide information in crisis situations. And last but not least, we want to get into conversation with you.
The Hochsauerland district police authority is represented on three platforms in the virtual world. In addition to Facebook and Twitter, Instagram is also part of the HSK police portfolio.
Our Twitter followers receive the most important updates on major emergency situations and road closures. We can be found there under "Polizei_nrw_hsk".
On Facebook, we present the most exciting and curious operations of everyday police service, we accompany our service dogs in their training and service and give preventive tips on current topics. You can follow us at "Polizei.nrw.hsk".
The Instagram platform is the latest terrain that the HSK police have ventured into. Here, our followers are taken into everyday police life and stories from the police service are told. Our name there: "Polizei.nrw.hsk".
Before you visit our pages, however, we would like to give you some important information on the subject of data protection.
General information on the subject of data protection can be found on the website of the responsible supervisory authority for data protection in North Rhine-Westphalia, the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia: www.ldi.nrw.de.