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Re:Police live-tweeted a drug raid by atlbeer on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @10:43AM (#2781103)
Going to the department website they have a link to the Twitter account being used here

http://www.birminghamwestandcentralpolice.org.uk/

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Re:Police live-tweeted a drug raid by nodata on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @10:52AM (#2781142)
Two red flags:

* The British Police have their own .police.uk domain space.

* The ip address is used for shared webhosting and is owned by uk2.net

whois does say "West Midlands Police", but this could be forged.

Either way it's extremely unprofessional and will be shut down by a lawyer soon :)

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Re:Police live-tweeted a drug raid by zacgarrett on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @11:12AM (#2781245)
Same site with the .police.uk and linking to the same twitter account.

http://www.west-midlands.police.uk/np/birminghamwestandcentr...

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Re:Police live-tweeted a drug raid by mtogo on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @11:12AM (#2781243)
The police in the UK are not known for their professionalism.
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Re:Police live-tweeted a drug raid by nodata on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @03:20PM (#2782623)
Downvotes?
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