The police in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district have been on Facebook since July 2017.

From now on, we will inform you here about current and outstanding events from our district. You will also find prevention, recruitment and wanted postings here in future

You can find us at: https://www.facebook.com/polizei.nrw.gl

You can access the NRW police YouTube channel here: https://youtube.de/c/PolizeiNRW

An overview of the NRW police Facebook and Twitter pages can be found on the state page.

How do you recognize the real police on social media

Unfortunately, there are, of course, many offers on social media that look deceptively similar to real police offers. Police press releases, images and emblems are used to give the impression that it is a police page. The NRW police are taking action against the operators of these pages using all the legal options available to them.

A police website can be recognized by the following features:

• it has a uniform naming convention (police NRW and name/name abbreviation of the police authority).
  • Facebook: facebook.com/Polizei.NRW.Behördenkürzel
  • Twitter @polizei_nrw_Behördenkürzel
• it is usually certified by the platform provider (tick in blue circle)
• it has a police star with an authority logo.
• Data for making contact outside the social network is provided

Data protection in social media

Data protection in social media is important to the NRW police. You should therefore take the time to read the following data protection information before using the links to police services on social media.

Privacy policy for Twitter

By clicking on "Follow" you will become a follower of the police account, which will be visible to the administrators of the page as well as to your friends and possibly other Twitter users.

This information is neither analyzed by the administrators of the police account nor recorded elsewhere. The statistics that Twitter makes available to the administrators of the police account are output in aggregated form and do not allow the administrators to draw any conclusions about personal data. In this context, please also note the data usage guidelines at https://www.twitter.com/privacy/ and make the appropriate privacy settings in your account! Please check carefully what information you publish!

What Twitter learns:

What data Twitter stores in detail and how the company uses this data is not exactly known. What is certain is that Twitter not only stores data that is entered directly by users, but also records the actions of Twitter users - presumably without gaps - and passes it on to third parties.

Twitter also learns

• the most important data of the computer system (log data) from which a user logs into the network - including IP address, processor type and browser version including plug-ins and
• every visit to websites (widget data) on which a Twitter button is installed. The IP address is also transmitted. If the visitor to the external site is a Twitter user and has already logged in to Twitter from the same computer, Twitter can also determine their identity

Data protection information for Facebook

By clicking on "Like", you become a fan of the police page, which is visible to the administrators of the page as well as to your friends and possibly other Facebook users. This applies in particular to "likes" or comments on our posts, which are also visible to non-registered visitors and non-fans of this fan page. Even if you are not or do not become a fan of this page, you can leave comments or "Like" information on our postings that are visible to others and the administrators of the fan page. However, this information is neither analyzed by the administrators nor recorded elsewhere. The statistics that Facebook makes available to the administrators are displayed in aggregated form and do not allow the administrators to draw any conclusions about personal data. In this context, please also note the data usage guidelines at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ and make the appropriate privacy settings in your account! Please check carefully what information you publish!

What Facebook learns:

What data Facebook stores in detail and how the company uses this data is not exactly known. What is certain is that Facebook not only stores data that is entered directly by users, but also records the actions of Facebook users.

Facebook also learns

• the most important data of the computer system from which a user logs into the network - including IP address, processor type and browser version including plug-ins and
• every visit to websites (widget data) on which a "Like" button is installed. The IP address is also transmitted. If the visitor to the third-party site is a Facebook user and has already logged in to Facebook from the same computer, Facebook can also determine their identity.
  • User authentication
  • Targeted advertising
  • Analysis and research of user behavior
  • Disclosure to third parties: The user accounts of all Google services converge centrally. The data collected is automatically linked to other Google services. Anonymized data is passed on to advertising partners and other third parties, e.g. to visualize trends and statistics