Use of and Spending on Facebook and Twitter

Reference: 18002

Date Added: Friday, February 16, 2018

Category: Miscellaneous

Disclosure Details

Question

 

1. Does your organisation have a Facebook Page(s)? If yes, what is/are the url(s) and when were they set up?

2. Does your organisation advertise or spend any money on Facebook? If yes, please can you outline what expenditure has occurred and break down expenditure per calendar year (January to December) since 2004?

3. Does your organisation have a Twitter Account? If yes, what is/are the url(s) and when were they set up?

4. Does your organisation advertise or spend any money on Twitter? If yes, please can you outline what expenditure has occurred and break down expenditure per calendar year (January to December) since 2006?

5. Does your organisation use Google G-Suite services (Google services) or does your organisation rely on google for any services (such as email hosting)? If yes, what are the services, when were they agreed and how much did they cost?

6. Does your organisation advertise or spend any money on Google? If yes, please can you outline what expenditure has occurred and break down expenditure per calendar year (January to December) since the payments first began?

7. Is there an official policy for the use of organisational Facebook or Twitter Accounts (ie how to post, what to use it for and when to delete or preserve records)? If there is a policy (or policies) please may I be provided with them?

 

Answer

 

Two duties are placed on public authorities under Section 1 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). Notwithstanding applicable exemptions, the first duty at, Section 1(1) (a), is to confirm or deny whether the information specified in a request is held. The second duty at, Section1 (1) (b), is to disclose information that has been confirmed as being held.

Under the provisions of those sections of the FOIA, we can confirm that the information you seek is held by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent. Please find responses below.

1. Yes, the URL is www.facebook.com/pg/gwentpcc/ and the handle is @gwentpcc. The page was set up on November 22nd 2012.

2. Gwent Police Authority was in existence between 2004 and November 2012. No money was spent on Facebook between these dates.

The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Gwent replaced Gwent Police Authority in November 2012. No money was spent on Facebook between 2012 and 2016.
2017 – we paid for 3 promotions costing a total of £40.91.

3. Yes, @GwentPCC was set up in December 2011

4. No information held.

5. The OPCC has use of google mail email accounts (we do not use these to conduct our day to day business but are used to link to social media channels such as You Tube) and we can also use google chrome as an internet browser. There is no cost attached and no information held as to when these were set up.

6. No information held.

7. The OPCC has adopted the policy that is used by Gwent Police, which has been attached to this response. The OPCC also has a social media Terms and Conditions document that is
available on our website. This document provides guidance for the public who interact with our social media pages – please see link below for access to the document.

www.gwent.pcc.police.uk/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Publications/13.01.03_Social_Media_T_Cs.pdf