Web constables

Web constables are local police officers who work in the social media. We are in different social media net-works (Facebook, VK.com, different Estonian forums) with our name and pictures. We participate in the discussions and are available for everyone to ask questions, send hints, complaints about other people or the police. We are welcomed in different groups where people are discussing about the local issues. We try to solve cyberbullying cases where they took place (it includes gaming sites or forums where we are not active but where we can go just to for taking care of the misunderstandings between the children) – sometimes they are easier to solve through the social media. Our main target is also dealing with minors, possible school shooters. So we do the background check based on the police database and the social media information and we pass it on to the local level (local police department) where they try to collect information about the things what can not be found from the social media (domestic violence, school issues, possibility to get a gun). Last step is making a plan how to help this child. Also, connected to the adolescence of our radicals (which we have but not that much, mainly skinheads), we have had positive feedback from them. They are also using our help in solving their real life problems (because it is so much better when you do not have to go to the department). This also means that they help us: they have given us information about wannabe skinheads (under 18years old children who are abusing alcohol and behaving badly in the city and saying to everyone that they are skinheads) and even about badly behaving drivers.

Contact details:

Pärnu mnt 139
15060 Tallinn
Estonia

Toomas Kuuse
Email: toomas.kuuse@politsei.ee 
Tel: (+372) 6123281

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