Lancashire Police defend using meme to report crime

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Lancashire Police's 'How it started, how it's going' post about Samuel Walmsley went viral.

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The police account also responded to some replies by asking people to fill in a social media survey to find out "what you want and need from us through social media".'Unseemly celebratory' Meanwhile, another asked: "What kind of society do we live in when official police accounts are posting memes and trying to go viral?"

The force said: "The reaction to this post has been overwhelmingly positive both online - with more than 71k likes - and in the local community who were directly affected by this criminal activity.

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