THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: If there is one place where everything is going positive for the state police department, it is on Facebook. Their official FB page has been gaining so much attention of late that they now stand second in the country among FB pages of police departments. With 4.21 lakh followers, the Kerala Police page is only behind Bengaluru Traffic Police that has 4.94 lakh followers. Not just that, the statistics also makes them third largest social media page of a police department, globally. Victoria Police is on top of the list with 5.93 lakh followers.Inspector General ( Thiruvananthapuram ) Manoj Abraham said that the credit to the new-found success of the page goes to the six-member social media cell which is handling the page. They were responsible for coming up with great ideas out of current affairs and socially relevant issues and then turn them into attractive memes that won the hearts of social media users.‘’When they started they were given one specific direction – to gain acceptance among the youth’’, said Manoj Abraham adding that the social media cell has succeeded in the task. The department has already initiated steps to get the page verified by the Facebook authorities by getting the blue tick.‘’There are a lot of people, who are still doubtful whether it is the official page of the Kerala Police owing to the funny memes and tongue-in-cheek replies given to the commenters. Once the page gets verified any such doubts among the followers will be gone’’, the inspector general said.“Before we started posting memes and trolls over a month ago, the response rate of our page was at a mere 13% as per the assessment of Facebook authorities. Now, the response rate stands at 99%,” said B T Arun, a civil police officer and a member of the social media cell. Response rate is measured based on the number of comments, likes and shares received for each post on the page.Dr G Mohan Roy, psychiatrist and regional medical officer of Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, said the pro-active initiatives like Janamaithri Scheme by the police could also be a reason for the success of the page. Such initiatives took the fear out of people for the police, which explains the high activity rate in the page.‘’Also, Malayalis have always been very active as a society. They always had their opinion and made sure they voiced it, even before the advent of social media’’, he said adding that this could be why there is relatively less activity of followers in Bengaluru City Traffic Police page despite having more number of followers.