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Trending: NJ State Police Rank No. 2 in Terms of Twitter Followers

The department has 23,618 followers.

OK, so maybe it's not trending right now, but chances are, it soon will be.

The New Jersey State Police ranked second among state police agencies nationally in terms of Twitter followers, according to statistics recently released by the IACP Center for Social Media.

The agency has 23,618 followers, trailing only the Massachusetts State Police, which had a whopping 62,493 followers, as of April 30.

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The Texas Department of Public Safety (18,787), the Ohio State Highway Patrol (13,587) and the Indiana State Police (13,466) round out the top five.

As of Monday morning, May 13, the State Police had 23,932 followers and had sent out 991 tweets.

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However, with over eight million people in the state as of the 2012 Census, the State Police still have a lot of ground to cover before it has the entire state following.

For those interested, New Jersey State Police Twitter handle is @NJSP.

Four other New Jersey police departments ranked highly on their respective lists:

* Harvey Cedars was No. 2 for departments with 1-15 officers with 2,108 followers;

* Hillsdale ranked No. 6 for departments with 16-25 officers with 1,222 followers;

* Bellmawr ranked No. 7 for departments with 16-25 officers with 1,206 followers; and

* Fairfield ranked No. 10 for departments with 26-49 officers with 2,232 followers.

The Center for Social Media was launched in October of 2010 in an effort to enhance law enforcement's use of social media to prevent and solve crimes, strengthen community relations with the departments and "enhance services."


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