Press Release: Police to conduct their 1st patrol shift Tweet-Along 
DATE: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 11:00am to 7:00pm
NARRATIVE:
The Ocean Township Police Department will host their first tweet-along of a police patrol shift on the day before Thanksgiving, Wednesday November 26, 11:00am to 7:00pm. The goal of the tweet-along is to broaden our community outreach effort by having our social media followers experience what we do on a typical shift through the use of Twitter and Facebook. A tweet-along is a virtual ride-along that will communicate everything from the mundane to the serious over the course of a police shift. We will chronicle the day’s events as they occur and highlight incidents that develop. The only exception to this will be incidents that are sensitive in nature or concern on-going confidential investigations.
The tweet-along will be interactive in that followers will be able to ask questions. We anticipate that the tweet-along will help increase the number of followers on our Twitter and Facebook platforms. Lieutenant Timothy Torchia will be riding with Police Officer Phil Jackson on that day and will be tweeting about the activities that occur during the shift.
For over a year now we have been successfully using social media platforms to communicate some of the major police incidents and community events within Ocean Township. We are taking it one step further by conducting the tweet-along which will be the first by a Monmouth County Police Department. The idea of the tweet-along is not new and has been used by a couple of police departments in NJ and others around the country. Also, and most importantly our social media outreach has been successful because of all the behind the scenes work both on and off duty by our Social Media Officer Lieutenant Timothy Torchia. He is committed to connecting to our community and because of that we have made a name for ourselves in the social media world. I am very proud of what he has accomplished in the last year.
PREPARED BY:
Chief Steven R. Peters
Office: 732-531-1816
email: [email protected]
DATE: 11/18/2014
Address/Location
Township of Ocean Police Department
399 Monmouth Road
Ocean Township, NJ 07755
Contact
Emergency: 9-1-1
Non-emergencies: 732-531-1800
