Tweet Your Way Through a Ride-Along With Sheriff’s Deputies this Saturday

Written by Joan Dentler:

What's it like to patrol the streets of San Mateo County on a Saturday night? What types of calls to sheriff's deputies respond to between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. 

Thanks to Twitter, residents will be able to join deputies from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office @SMCSheriff for a virtual ride-along this Saturday, Sept. 21 from 4-10 p.m. 

Experience the excitement and action of a night with sheriff's deputies by using the hashtag #SMCVRA. 

A deputy will be live tweeting the action as it happens, and answering questions posed by followers. 

Deputy Rebecca Rosenblatt, the sheriff's office public information officer, will be sitting with the dispatchers who receive the calls and disseminate everything from the mundane to the erratic.

(Click on the photos above for a look at a previous SMC Sheriff's Virtual Ride-Along.)

 "This virtual ride-along will give deputies an opportunity to interact with community members. It's been very successful in Palo Alto and in other cities around the country," said Rosenblatt. 

"It's a good opportunity for community members to see what kind of calls deputies get and what they are doing out there," she added.