So we have finished the first phase of Tweet3po with 9 neighborhood watch droids deployed, covering the bulk of Greater Orlando.

At present, we have the following neighborhood bots available for the City of Orlando Crime Watch / Citizen Reporter automated tweet bot:

• Baldwin Park, Orlando FL

• College Park, Orlando FL

• Colonial Town South, Orlando FL

• Delaney Park,  Orlando FL

• Downtown Orlando FL

• Lake Eola Heights, Orlando FL

• Lake Lancaster, Orlando FL

• Parramore, Orlando FL

• Thorton Park, Orlando FL

Anyone can subscribe to the Twitter Feed of the above Droids and they will receive Tweets of Orlando Police Department Dispach calls, creating a near-realtime online police scanner.  Followers who are Followed back by the Tweet Droid can send Direct Messages to the neighborhood Tweet Droid which will be Re-Tweeted automatically.

How do you get the Tweet Droid to follow you back?  I guess you just have to ask it?

Future plans include dashbord reporting console.   Dave and I were actually discussing this very feature in front of his house when 2 OPD cruisers approached the curb and asked if we had called them.  We hadn’t and Dave asked what address they were called to.  The officer said 850 E. Livingston.  Dave commented that there is no 850 E. Livingston.  And there is not.

But Dave was more concerned that he hadn’t seen a tweet for any calls to that address.  I confirmed I had not seen one either.  Had the great Tweet3PO system failed us right before our very eyes?

5-10 minutes after the OPD cruisers left, the Tweet finally did show up.  There’s a built-in 10 minute delay from the OPD Active Dispach Calls website reporting the data. But we have actual first-hand proof that it works.

We’re working on adding other cities now.  And reports.

I did notice this disclaimer on the city website regarding the Police Active Calls Data:

Disclaimer: Calls For Service are the result of a person contacting the police department and an officer would respond, but not necessarily complete a report due to the nature of the incident.  Reported Calls are those that the officer documented the incident as a criminal or possibly criminal act.  These reports are not all-inclusive and does not represent all types of calls. Due to public records laws; specific information may not be released.  However, if there are any questions or concerns, please contact the District 4 OPD Liaison Officer at james.young@cityoforlando.net.

Check out this near realtime Google Maps mashup of central Florida and calls to the Orlando Police Department.   You can get the data visually though Google Maps, an XML feed, or subscribe to one of the Twitter Feeds for each Zip Code.  (links are under the Map, and make sure you zoom in on the map to see the details)

Calls to Orlando Police Department.