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North Yorkshire Police Chief Says Social Media Changes Are About Public Safety

She's been speaking after changes to the way North Yorkshire Police officers communicate online.

The Chief Constable of North Yorkshire has been defending the force's rationalisation of it's social media accounts.

Until recently individual officers would post and tweet from their own work accounts about incidents and appeals. Now those updates are being provided from a smaller number of "official" accounts instead.

Lisa Winward says they want to make sure their accounts are monitored more consistantly:

She also says it's about public safety:

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