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ACT police investigate one of their own after pornographic retweet









‘Unintentional error’ of promoting a #ThonglessThursday tweet was made by someone outside police media team














‘I can assure the Canberra community that our Twitter account is safe,’ the police chief says. Photograph: Damien Meyer/AFP/Getty Images



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A member of Australian Capital Territory police force is being investigated for retweeting pornographic photos on the organisation’s official Twitter account.
ACT policing was left red-faced on New Year’s Eve after its account promoted a tweet by “Katie Sanders” that showed photos of a naked woman and used the hashtag #ThonglessThursday.


— Maggs Dale Robert (@convictstock)
December 31, 2014
@KSanders0902 nice to see the ACT police in Canberra Australia think you #rock on #thonglessthursday @ACTPolicing pic.twitter.com/Mg45M3KqK7



Police deleted the nude photos from the feed and apologised. They have since clarified the “unintentional error” was made by a member who was outside the police media team. Police are reviewing their social media protocols.
“I can assure the Canberra community that our Twitter account is safe,” said the ACT chief police officer, Rudi Lammers.



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