Facebook and Orkut to fish out New Year parties where alcohols are probably going to be consumed. According to them, such non-public parties are being promoted thru members of social network websites among their chums and other members who are a part of their group. Officers are thus keeping a keen watch on the activities and communication on social marketing websites by registered members.
There are a few communities made by members for New Year parties, some of which, officers believe, are a guise for inviting patrons for a rave party. Invites or tickets for the largest rave parties busted during the past were sent thru social marketing websites, or links thru posted on them, which would then connect the person to another site. A senior ANC official announced, "People post 'scraps' which have subjects like 'trans party' or 'high life party', which is a ploy to hoodwink police officials.
We try and decode these messages, and after keeping a steady check on the messages being posted, or by checking where the links are leading to, we work out if they're for a standard party, or whether there are probabilities of gear being consumed there." He added, "Once the interested user gets in contact with the owner of the web community on the internet site, and if the owner finds him a reliable patron, he gives him his cell phone number, or sends him an SMS informing the main points of the location, and also the price involved." Officials have made their own profiles on many social networking websites and are also being assisted by college kids and one or two informers to reveal such activity on the web.
These profiles are generally created with fake names and details, and the age group discussed on these profiles is anything from eighteen to 27 years. In correspondences, the officer sometimes mentions that either he could be a school student, an IT pro.
