Policing change forced by social media idiots

This week new police guidance was issued which would see forces disclosing the nationality and ethnicity of suspects after arrest.

- with Mike Hill

The move follows the tidal wave of misinformation which flooded social media after last summer's murders of three young girls in Southport.

While bad actors ran wild with claims the killer was an asylum seeker, police withheld details of the man in custody before he was charged.

Merseyside Police found itself in the firing line with some claiming their decision to stay comfortably within the bounds of the law had fuelled outbreaks of civil disobedience around the country.