Police ‘tweetathon’ to reveal every reported incident in North Yorkshire tonight

North Yorkshire Police will be tweeting about every incident handled by its control room in 12 hours from this afternoon.

The “tweetathon” is designed to give the public a taste of the calls that come in to the force and will begin at 2pm today, running through to the early hours of tomorrow.

It is designed to show the public the number and variety of calls made to police via 999 and the non-emergency 101 number.

Posting about the tweetathon, the force said:

“We’ve already seen some of our busiest days, and months, on record in 2022 and this summer continues to be no different.

“In fact, we handled 33,221 calls in total during July, 10,490 of which were ‘999’ emergency calls which are our highest July volumes in history.

“But behind every 999 and 101 call and online report in North Yorkshire and York is the same dedicated team of people handling those reports, 24 hours a day. Each and every one is trained to deal with the most unusual and unique to the most distressing and challenging situations.”

The force has used its Twitter account in the same way previously. Last time, at Christmas, it published reports received about “a missing kebab, a naked man at the scene of a car crash in Northallerton, and a couple having an intimate moment by some garages behind a Scarborough hotel”.

To follow the live tweets from 2pm, watch the North Yorkshire Police Twitter feed and follow the official hashtag #NYPfor12.

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