ACP Crime advises: Ignore crime info on Social Media

According to ACP Hackshaw, for the past week persons have been sending photographs of persons allegedly being murdered, even naming persons as victims, and in one instance a video was shared of a man being beheaded.

Coupled with that, there have been numerous voice notes as well as some women alleging that they escaped from human traffickers.

The senior officer said that all the information waschecked and all turned out to be bogus.

He said officers of the Police Cyber Crime Unit have been working around the clock to ascertain where the information was coming from, and the police would get involved once the perpetrator/s was/ were found.

He said that people were engaging in causing a nationwide panic in the country when people were already concerned about crime. He added that persons should put country first and stop using social media for their own selfish purposes.

Yesterday, people received information on messaging app WhatsApp that three men were murdered at Mission Road, Freeport, and names of the alleged victims were given.

However, when Newsday contacted the Homicide Bureau, it was determined that the information was fake. Hackshaw further advised that if persons were concerned about the information they received on social media, they can contact the Police Service and provide the information.

Newsday understands that acting CoP Stephen Williams was also informed about the bogus information being sent through social media and he advised his communications manager, Ellen Lewis, to condemn the falsehood being perpetrated by unknown persons