Stuart Hyde, deputy chief constable of Cumbria Police, was also present at the event and stated the importance of industry and law enforcement working together to tackle criminal acts such as identity theft through password appropriation.
With this, police need to modernise and understand the technologies criminals are using, Hyde insisted, pointing to Cumbria Police's own use of Twitter during the recent shootings in the county.
"Unless we are on the pitch, we won't be able to tackle these issues," he said, explaining how the force has gone undercover on Facebook to prevent orgnanised football hooliganism and other crimes.
Last week the National Policing Improvement Agency updated its Initial Crime Investigators Development Programme to include social network training.
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