Police forces and social media on International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

[ChristinaXYZ]

It is very noticeable the lack of social media attention give to this on twitter etc by Police forces in England, especially compared to the Trans Day of Remembrance.

North Yorkshire Police for example tweet and hash tag white ribbon but do not mention International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women or even the words women or girls.

twitter.com/NYorksPolice/status/1463853737559179266

The Hampshire PCC in complete contrast does mention women - though of course the PCC is not the same as the force itself

twitter.com/HantsPCC/status/1463825177024860160

The good news is that the Hampshire force does have several tweets or RTs from serving officers and the chief constable mentioning women and pledging to protect.

Women all over the country deserve protection. There should not be a post code lottery on this. North Yorkshire and others should be in line with Hampshire.

What is happening with your police force?

twitter.com/policeserviceni/status/1463809982349066242?s=21

Local police - naff all

Our esteemed mayor - don’t be daft, but at least he isn’t spouting his usual ‘all’ women sentiment like usual.

Just been looking through our company social media accounts - crickets from the companies who generally plant a flag on everything. Weasels.

North Yorkshire are having by-election today for a new PCC. The last one didn't do well in this area. Hoping the next one is better. Just off to vote!

Yeah but there's no large corporate that they've signed up to who have required them to set up an internal committee for, and are demanding to see the evidence of tweets and SM action and commitment to the Cause as part of not being failed in annual appraisal and failing to gain sufficient points on the all important index, nor the chance of winning an award.

Without Stonewall behind the scenes vigorously creating the set up and incentives (and penalties for not doing it), there would not be the fuss that is seen on other days. It's commitment to the funding spent on the benefits to the company, not to the cause itself. It is all that cynical.

Need to ask Essex Police if they've held a ceremony and raised a flag

twitter.com/MerseyPolice/status/1463862248644952071
and because they are down the road twitter.com/WhiteRibbon_UK/status/1463584480552181768

@RedDogsBeg

Need to ask Essex Police if they've held a ceremony and raised a flag

Quite. Why is it that I have a pessimistic sense that I know the likely response to this?

Surprisingly Police Scotland know what a woman is.

Nah they don’t really...

Wonders will never cease, so do Greater Manchester Police

Lincolnshire police have tweeted a few times about it today mobile.twitter.com/LincsPolice/status/1463779780172595204 and are retweeting other police officers as well.
Marc Jones was one of the original PCC’s that spoke out in support of Lisa though and although I don’t agree with his politics, he seems firmly grounded in reality.

Does it necessarily follow that if they don’t tweet about it they’re not doing anything ?

Well the do bang on about things that don’t happen (and fly the flags) so I’d hope if they were doing something they’d have something to say about it.

@KittenKong

Well the do bang on about things that don’t happen (and fly the flags) so I’d hope if they were doing something they’d have something to say about it.

Starting by getting all their own houses in order, perhaps.

The MPS have 16 Days of Action which was publicised on Twitter and elsewhere early this morning

Yup. Scary stuff in the news even just in the past few days.