Brixton-based police sergeant Jack Rowlands reunited a woman with her purse purely through Twitter last night, after launching a real-time appeal on the social network.

A purse found in Clapham High Street was handed to Sgt Rowlands at 7pm last night, January 15.

Finding an ID in the purse, Rowlands took to Twitter in an attempt to locate the owner.

The search found that was she was in fact on Twitter and was still in the local area. Rowlands Tweeted: “@AshtonForde Sorry have you lost your purse? Just put your name into twitter.”



Sgt Rowlands uses Twitter as part of his daily duties as a local Sergeant for Ferndale local policing team. Using his account – @MPSFerndaleSgt – he tweeted the owner and made arrangements to reunite her with the lost property just 20 minutes after it was handed in.

Ashton Forde later tweeted, “Wooo! What a lovely sense of community I now have! Thank youuuuuu”