Every year or so, Avon and Somerset police ‘live tweet’ everything that comes in to the control room for one evening shift.
While it’s not every single call, the #ASPLive provides a fascinating insight into the kind of calls the police receive on a busy Saturday evening - with everything from the deadly serious to the mundane, with the bizarre and ridiculous thrown in.
Last night was a typically busy night for the police - from West Somerset to South Gloucestershire. A road traffic collision earlier in the day in the Brendon Hills west of Taunton proved to be fatal, and then there was a six-year-old boy hit by a motorcycle being ridden in St Jude’s in inner city Bristol.
