Statement on fake Merseyside Police Twitter account

We can confirm that detectives are aware and investigating a fake Merseyside Police Twitter account.

Enquiries are ongoing and the account has been reported to Twitter.

Members of the public are reminded that the force’s corporate Twitter account (@MerseyPolice) has a blue tick, joined Twitter in April 2009 and has more than 140,000 followers. Any similar account without this information should be ignored.