“Updates from the fake Twitter account included ‘warming up my radar gun for SXSW’ and ‘we’re looking to make more stops at SXSW this year than last,’ as well as references to police jargon codes that seemed to be stemming from a knowledge of gangsta rap lyrics rather than actual law enforcement.”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10204228-36.html

Not as useful as what you’ve done here.

Since I subscribed then have started working on a contract to the backend of Police Comms, sitting mere meters away form the live action. I used to put a stop watch on live -> media delays what with scanners and Police updates.

I’d love to see a real-time public comminication interface on our Police and Fire, and hope to see it happen before I leave here. Twitter maybe?
For now you’re doing a great job with the twitter bot http://www.police.govt.nz/news/updates – and Fire have http://incidents.fire.org.nz for an hour or so delay on events.

Must have a look at the code for my various bots that do 5 updates every 30 minutes using twitterfeed.com – this may be better, and less spammy.

Does it cope with updates to an alert?

The other upshot of this is that you can subscribe to this via RSS too, if you want it out of your twitterstream…

feed://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/18446406.rss