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t’s difficult for chip GooGe to
put his phone down. The Mount Pleasant
Police Department inspector is one of the
most connected police officials in the tri-
county. Googe controls the following social
media sites for his department: Facebook;
Twitter; Instagram; Next Door, which is a
neighborhood watch app; Vine; YouTube; and even a blog.
He also takes care of media requests and was
responsible for submitting
the Department’s successful
application to the Commission on Accreditation for Law
Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). How does he have time
to do it all?
“I honestly have no idea,” he joked. “My phone goes
off all the time. This is what people have grown to expect.
They want information quickly.”
This social media and community presence is one of
the many reasons the department was awarded a sought-
after national police accreditation – and its social media
reach is only growing. The department recently expanded
the roles of some of its officers to include sharing on
Twitter. Officers assigned to the Social Media Team now
have their own accounts to make it easier for them to
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Making
Connections
The MOunT PleasanT POliCe On sOCial Media
The Mount Pleasant Police Department received its accreditation
from CALEA July 25 in Colorado Springs. Left to right: CALEA
Executive Director W. Craig Hartley Jr., Mount Pleasant Police Capt.
Blair Martin, Capt. Mark Arnold, Inspector Chip Googe, Chief Carl
Ritchie and Commission Chairman RichardW. Myers.
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