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"We have a duty to protect life and property and if people are committing crime online then we will investigate"

SENIOR police officers have held talks with Twitter, Facebook, Google and BlackBerry to see how best information could be shared for criminal investigations and how officers might be trained in social media.

Information sharing – which could be highly contentious with millions of users around the globe – is likely to be opposed by such companies but officers will be trained in how to access the open source material available on sites such as Facebook.

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