Thin blue likes: Four Facebook lessons Hong Kong cops can learn from police around the world to make friends online

From promoting cats, to chasing seals and poking fun at boy band One Direction, Hong Kong police could learn a few lessons from their international colleagues’ popular Facebook accounts.

So far however, the page has seen little content other than a sombre announcement video featuring an animated newsreader and thousands of comments from Hongkongers angry about police behaviour.

There were already 35,000 comments on the page’s two posts by midday today and a police spokeswoman had threatened negative commenters with legal action.