Use of Police Resources To Edit Wikipedia Page
In February 2008 an article in the Daily Mail drew attention to a long-running edit war of Bettison's Wikipedia page, and made accusations that Bettison had instructed his staff to monitor the page and to edit out unfavourable references to him.
A chief constable has told his staff to monitor online encyclopedia Wikipedia – to stop its users posting rude comments about him. Sir Norman Bettison took exception to being described as a "greedy, vain moron" on the online encyclopaedia, according to Police Review magazine. The 52-year-old chief constable of West Yorkshire – favourite to succeed Sir Ian Blair as head of the Met – has ordered employees to check for changes often.
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