We are active for you on social media from Monday to Friday from 07:00 to 15:30. During this time, the social media team reads comments and messages and looks forward to exchanging ideas with you. We always endeavor to provide you with appropriate feedback. Outside of the social media team's office hours, our channels are only read by the control center.
Important information:
Always call 110 in urgent cases!
We ask you not to publish any information about criminal offenses or personal data on social networks. If you would like to give a tip or report a crime, please use our online police station or go to the nearest police station. In calls for witnesses or wanted notices, you will also always find the relevant police station with telephone contact details.
Netiquette
We ask everyone to remember that real people are communicating with each other here. To ensure a constructive exchange on our social media channels, the community agrees on the following common values and rules of conduct:
- We respect our fellow human beings. We comment responsibly. We are constructive and polite.
- We only comment on the current post topic.
- Questions and ideas are welcome.
- Disagreements are part of life. We argue on a factual level and don't get personal. We criticize opinions and actions, not people.
- Before commenting/tweeting, we put ourselves in the other person's shoes. We check whether we would also say the sentence to a person's face in a conversation.
- If we are provoked or treated unfairly, the social media team can be contacted during office hours.
- We stick to verifiable facts and are careful with assumptions, especially accusations.
- We stand up for the Basic Law and an open, democratic society.
- We express ourselves clearly and comprehensibly. Irony and sarcasm can easily be misunderstood if you cannot see/hear the other person.
- We accept that "Du" has become the common form of address on the German-speaking web and we do not get annoyed if we are not addressed as "Du".
The Internet is not a legal vacuum!
We do not tolerate
- Insults, abusive language and degrading statements
- unlawful content, e.g. incitement or instruction to commit crimes; statements harmful to minors; statements that violate personal rights or content that violates the copyrights or data protection of third parties
- inflammatory, racist, obscene, discriminatory or pornographic content
- misleading claims and untrue statements of fact
- content that is linked to viruses, Trojans or harmful websites or is otherwise likely to impair the use of the site or the user's IT system
- Spam/copy&paste of your own comments
- Contributions containing personal data, commercial contributions and third-party advertising, links are not permitted and will be hidden or deleted by us. This is to prevent users from being redirected to fraudulent sites, e.g. through subsequent changes to stored websites.
As the police, we stand for law and order. You can and may expect the same from us on the Internet! In the case of comments that violate the law, we initiate appropriate proceedings, hide the comments and block the user. If you notice any possible legal violations on our pages, please inform us.
Users whose comments have been hidden or deleted or whose account has been blocked or blocked can informally inquire about the reason for the measure. To do so, please send an email to:
presse-oeffentlichkeitsarbeit.essen [at] polizei.nrw.de (presse-oeffentlichkeitsarbeit[dot]essen[at]polizei[dot]nrw[dot]de).
In addition, the terms of use of the respective social network and our privacy policy apply.
We hope you enjoy sharing your opinions!