Police Chief Asks for Public Input on Department's New Facebook Page

Chief Denise Turner helped kick off the department's new Facebook page with a message today:

Hey Friends,

Welcome to the Gilroy Police Department Facebook Page! We are glad you are our Friends! We are very excited about this new tool. We believe that by using Facebook it will help expand our outreach to the community. The vision is to bring our Friends timely information about activity in Gilroy. We plan to share crime activity, crime prevention tips and updates on our municipal code. We want to enlist our Friends to help us solve crime and catch offenders! We are here to help answer your questions and gain your input. 

So please follow us as we embark down a new path,

Chief Denise Turner

The new page, launched last week, joins several other city agencies that have found their way to Facebook: City Hall, the Recreation Department, Chamber of Commerce and Visitor's Bureau being among them.

Local media has also taken advantage of social media: Gilroy Patch, The Gilroy Dispatch and Gilroy Today each host Facebook pages to help connect with their readers.