News, info and alerts from your local police covering Richmond, Catterick and the Garrison, Leyburn, Hawes, Reeth, Muker, Middleton Tyas and surrounding places. The aim of our social media channels is to create an environment where our communities can engage safely in debate and are free to make comments, questions and suggestions. We ask that anyone engaging with our social media channels shows courtesy, kindness and respect for all other members of our social media communities. In order to help create this safe environment we have set out some guidelines which apply to any engagement with us or other members of the community on any of our social media channels: https://www.northyorkshire.police.uk/police-forces/north-yorkshire-police/areas/about-us/about-us/social-media/social-media-community-guidelines/
By engaging with our social media channels you agree to follow these guidelines:
Comments must not:
◾ Contain spam, be defamatory of any person, deceive others, be obscene, offensive, threatening, abusive, hateful, inflammatory or promote s*xually explicit material or violence.
◾ Promote discrimination based on race, s*x, religion, nationality, disability, s*xual orientation or age.
◾ Breach any of the terms of any of the social media platforms themselves.
◾ Be off-topic, irrelevant or unintelligible.
◾ Contain any advertising or promote any services. We reserve the right to determine, at our discretion, whether contributions to our social media channels breach our guidelines. We reserve the right to hide or delete comments made on our channels, as well as block users who do not follow these guidelines. We also reserve the right to make a copy of any comments we deem appropriate for investigation as we feel necessary or is required for criminal justice purposes. If you are concerned about any comments you have seen shared on any of our social media channels then please report them to us by emailing: [email protected]
Please also remember that we cannot take reports of crime via social media, all crime should be reported via our website, on 101 or in an emergency call 999.
