And in a final bit of police news, the BPD has hired a media consultant. It caused a stir among media houses because everyone got locked out of the Police Chat group.
That was straightened out in an emergency intervention with the Minister yesterday, but the Compol says their main job is parsing through the plethora of media houses in that chat group to see which is real and which isn't:
Dr. Richard Rosado, Commissioner of Police
"We did have a session with a media consultant, a two day media consultant to advise us on how we can improve the relationship with the media and with the public and the person basically volunteers herself to assist us. She had done some training for us before whenever she has done some training she usually offers her assistance. Our media blog has a total of 40 media houses, 64 individuals. So the intent was to basically verify who are the legitimate media houses and for us to establish that open communication with them I must admit in hindsight we should have consulted and brought all the 40 media houses together. There was a number of recommendations she gave in terms of how we can improve the relationship with the media and the public and three of the recommendations I thought was valid for us that we could have acted on was the one on determining who are the legitimate media houses because for sure there are not 40 legitimate media houses, the other was for us to continue with the weekly media press brief and for us to be able to have a press officer who will deal with all incidents of crime and addressing it to the media."
