FEATURE: Earlier this month WeCops – ‘the Twitter home of continuous professional development for policing’ – held its latest Tweet chat event focusing on communications, hosted by West Mercia Chief Constable and NPCC comms lead Pippa Mills; WeCops’ Sgt Kerri Monaghan looks at the key points and comments made during the discussion, and highlights some of the potential learning that resulted from the chat.

FEATURE: While the benefits and negative consequences of the police use of stop and search are frequently debated, the increased use of community scrutiny panels has been put forward as one measure to improve both monitoring and understanding of this policing tool; the panels were the focus of a recent @WeCops Twitter Chat, which has been summarised here by team member and West Mercia Sergeant Kerri Monaghan.

OPINION: The latest @WeCops chat tackled the complex subject of stop and search, hosted by an experienced and expert team of officers and attracting contributions from a wide and varied Twitter audience; this blog, written by Sgt Kerri Monaghan, West Mercia Police’s tactical lead for stop and search and use of force, pulls together the key points from the debate.