Katie Nelson is the Social Media & Public Relations Coordinator of the City of Mountain View Police Department.  The Mountain View Police Department is a leader in the social media space for law enforcement using a scientific approach to how they execute their digital communications.  Combining pop culture, analytical insights and listening to their audience has made them tuned into how to most effectively share their public safety messaging.

You may recognize the Pasco County Sheriff's Office for their work with the #9PMRoutine and the #LivePD broadcasts, but what you might not recognize is the excellent social media strategy that has positioned the Pasco County Sheriff's Office to be one of the best social media programs representing law enforcement. 

Today I'm joined by my good friend, Chief Billy Grogan of the Dunwoody Police Department in Georgia. Chief Grogan is talking leadership and how he is giving back to the future leaders of law enforcement with his new venture, "Top Cop Leadership".

Keynote speaker, crisis communications strategist and soon to be best selling author Melissa Agnes talks about how to become Crisis Ready so that the issues you face don't become a crisis. As a strategic advisor and keynote speaker, Melissa Agnes has worked with NATO, Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defense, financial firms, technology companies, healthcare organizations, cities and municipalities, law enforcement agencies, global non-profits, and many

Neil Dewson-Smyth is a police officer in the UK who has developed a passion for live streaming and a greater passion for making roads safer everywhere through the #Don'tStreamAndDrive Campaign designed to help people think twice about the dangers posed when the stream while driving.

In this episode of The Police Podcast, Tamrin Olden and Mike Bires from The Law Enforcement dot Social Podcast joined in for a special  crossover episode.  The three of us discussed what we see happening in the area of law enforcement and public safety social media use giving our own predictions / keys to success for 2018.

Part 1 is the story about the PBSO's social media platforms being taken over by an 8 year old girl that had been dead for 30 years and how this girl brought her cold case back to life.  Part 2 is how they grew their Facebook Followers by over 600 in just a few hours organically.

Casie Shimanski is going to get married and then two days later she is going bald. The first for love of her man and the second for the love she has of giving back and being a great person. Shis part of the Cisco Systems, "We Are Cisco" team that delivers user generated content to social media chanels highlighting the backbone of Cisco, it's people.

This is a long episode coming in at 2 hours. A couple of highlights... 41 minutes I gave a list of successful black people: police officers, politicians, business, entertainers. According to Desmond, not one is successful based on merit, skills or abilities.  62 minutes The School Resource Officer Program   One of my favorite quotes of all time is from Benjamin Franklin…. “Love your enemies for they will tell you your faults.”  Prior to Franklin saying that, Antisthenes said, Pay...

Everyone in the Orlando area remembers vividly the events that happened in the early morning hours of June 12th, 2016. At 2:02 am, The Pulse Nightclub Shooting began and over the next couple of days the reality of one of the worst shootings in the history of the United States took place. But, for the Orlando Police Department Public Relations Office, June 10th and 11th were very busy days that prepared them for what was about to take the worlds attention. Wanda Miglio and Michelle hold...

MC - AKA Jason Hoschouer was the very first guest I ever had on The Police Podcast... I knew at some point I would have him back on. We've kept in contact since that first episode and I've been an avid listener to his podcast, The Crossover Show that he co-hosts with Justin Bieber. MC has been online talking about his duties since 2008 and letting the world know, "If got stopped, you deserved it." He talks about some of the current events that we've been seeing around North America,...

Mike McCormack is the President of the Toronto Police Association, the largest of it's kind in Canada representing over 8,000 members both sworn and civilian. Mike comes from a deep policing tradition and like he mentioned in the interview, his dad went up the management side to become Chief and Mike chose the other side to become president. I'm not sure which title I would rather hold, Chief or president. What the two men have in common is an incredible duty of service to others and Mike...

Two incredible power houses in their own fields joined forces to help parents writing the book, "Outsmarting Your Kids Online - A Safety Handbook For Overwhelmed Parents".   I read this book in about two days. I know some of you could do it in about three hours. It's an easy read but more importantly it's got immediately actionable things you can do to help protect your family. Amber and Michael talk about the must do's, the need to do's and the should do's that can make an immediate...

Ben Gardner is probably better known as @TrooperBenKHP is one part of the Kansas Highway Patrol that has become infamous in law enforcement social media circles as, "The #TweetingTroopers". Trooper Ben has been using Twitter as his primary tool for outreach to help educate, inform and entertain his community of followers talking traffic safety. You can find him at crash scenes and community events, conferences and cruisers and you can always be sure that he will be talking about ways to...

"Connecting great people with great people to do great things." I could leave the show notes right there to tell you everything you need to know about Brian Fanzo. Brian has a deep, deep history with online activities, which began with cyber security in the Department of Defence. Brian has been on stages talking about the online world for many years but what he is currently in demand for is his thought leadership with building communities and audiences. Brian is a social and digital...

Chris Lewis was the Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police before retiring in 2014 to start his consulting firm, Lighthouse Leadership Services. Commissioner Lewis is also a special correspondent to Bell Media covering issues relating to policing.  He was very candid in this interview discussing his feeling on Street Checks (Carding) and that when he was the boss, he had no problem telling his boss the Premiere Of Ontario (respectfully) exactly what he thought.  Lewis’ leadership...

He's best known online as Mike_TheCop on all things social, but he also has a second persona as one of the contributors to, "Humanizing The Badge." Mike is a Metro Detroit area police officer who infuses his wicked sense of humor within the day to day happenings of a police officer.  His antics on Vine, Instagram and Facebook are the stuff that legends are made of which has brought a global audience to the things he does in policing and offers a comedic, behind the scenes look at police...

From The Oakland Police Department via Nixle The Oakland Police Department would like to apologize for the recent press release addressing traffic safety enforcement during the Cinco de Mayo holiday. We acknowledge that the language in the message sent was completely insensitive to the cultural holiday. We have worked extensively to build trust with all our communities and value the amazing cultures that make up the heart of our City. We are taking appropriate steps to insure that this...

Officer Tommy Norman of the North Little Rock Arkansas Police Department is one of a kind! When I first began following Tommy, I believed that he must be a community relations officer or school resource officer.  The guy is all over social media talking with the community, showing their good work, this guy interacts with everyone!  I was surprised to learn that he is a front line patrol officer that answers radio calls, arrests bad people and does his calling with incredible respect and...

Yael Bartur is the Digital Strategist for the NYPD and you can bet that with 116 Twitter Accounts and a massive community she has her hands full but she takes it all in stride. With a solid strategy and a plan for growth that includes proper training, monitoring and management of the department's social media accounts the task she has comes with a great potential for many agencies to follow.  Yael chats about the wins, challenges and who she looks to for inspiration as she looks for new and...

Nick Selby Talks Data...Big Data What happens when you use data instead of anecdotes to study the information behind police shootings? You get facts and not rhetoric. You get a place to start a real conversation about situations that need a deeper look.It's amazing what Nick Selby and his team are doing with data research to get to the bottom of the real story. You can't argue with facts and physics and when those get backed up by data, you have a pretty solid foundation...

FAN BOY ALERT!!! I love Larry Winget. I love everything about him from his down home country southern style, to his cowboy shirts and boots, his social media use and of course his common sense approach to pretty much everything life has to throw at us.  Larry is very candid in his time with us and admits that he is a fan of police, not a fan of people who don't like police and does a favorite police officer...his son.  Larry is a professional speaker, author and personal development expert...

Yes police fans...you read / heard / saw it right. The Police Podcast is back for it's second season. Now I know how Netflix feels every time it rolls out a new season of House Of Cards. The anticipation is incredible, the new season drops and in 15 hours, I've binge watched every amazing moment and then I am feeling left empty and lost again. But, not to worry...I am not dropping an entire season on you at once and then walking away. Although there are 2 older recordings ready to go, 2 new...

This podcast is brought to by... For something a little different...this podcast was origianlly recorded as a 'Scope on the Periscope platform, so you'll hear references to the audience and Periscope specific terms...let's see how this goes. 5 Tips To Help You Trick Facebook's Algorithm Facebook, as a publicly traded company has a responsibility to earn money for it's investors, not to give you what you want...views. A+B=C, if C then D. If D=T+L then, M. I have no idea what that means...