A Metropolitan Police spokesman told me: "We encourage our officers to have a friendly interaction with their followers about their policing activities."
This isn't the first police force that's used social media to laugh at alleged criminals.
In Australia, police had a good laugh posting a stoner's eccentric to-do list. Also in Australia, police took to Facebook to charge Nickelback with crimes against music.
Just as any organization, the police clearly feel the need to use entertainment in order to endear themselves to the public.
Social media creates a medium on which to be loved. In this case it must have given the police, at least for a few minutes, something of a high.
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