Greater Manchester Police (GMP) used Twitter to give the open an thought of the effort officers face.
Chief Constable Peter Fahy mentioned it would moreover give politicians an thought of the type of incidents "not recognized in joining tables and measurements".
Officers posted updates on 3 GMP feeds on the amicable networking site is to 24-hours up to 0500 BST on Friday.
Over the period, the military Twitter page, that was moreover being displayed on the force's website , was
Among them was a inform of a human keeping a newborn over a overpass - but when military attended it incited out to be a human carrying a dog.
Others enclosed a censure about someone smoking on a flight in to Manchester Airport, suspected shoplifters in Bolton and a inform of an overly assertive motorist in Wigan.
A lady rang about a automobile she deserted at a motor fuel hire in Bury after putting the incorrect fuel in the container and, more seriously, officers were sent to Rochdale after a youngster was harmed in a crash.
A after that situation that was tweeted entangled a military executive returning to a military outpost to find that human excrement had been dirty on the doorway handles - the outpost then had to be taken off the thoroughfare whilst it was cleaned.
The last situation tweeted was a inform of a section being thrown at a automobile in Leigh.
The force mentioned between 0500 BST and 1700 BST its officers had arrested 217 people, and 119 of those remained in control on Thursday evening.
The GMP Twitter form has moreover vanished from having 3,000 supporters peaking at more than 14,000.
Mr Fahy said: "Policing is frequently seen in really elementary terms, with cops chasing robbers and locking them up.
"However, the reality is that this accounts for usually segment of the work they have to deal with.
"A lot of what you do is traffic with amicable problems such as omitted children, people with mental illness problems and made at home abuse.
"Often these incidents may be incredibly intricate and need a lot of time, resources and expertise.
"I am not adage that you shouldn't attend to these variety of incidents, far from it. But what I am adage is that this work is not recognized in joining tables and measurements, nonetheless is a outrageous segment of what you do."
GMP is working the feed as military forces prop themselves for projected bill cuts in the government's Spending Review on 20 October.
Mr Fahy believes military opening needs to be deliberate in a not similar way and has called for a rethink on how forces are funded.
"There needs to be more concentration on how the open zone as a entire is working together to plunge into society's problems and problems," he said.
"We see time and once again the same families, the same areas and the same people causing the same problems and these people are causing a substantial empty [on] the open purse.
"Instead of the open zone organisations having well-defined pots of money, you could outlay it more well if it were a large pot.
"This could be completed by working together more effectively, by joining up and pity the shortcoming of the problems that you are all traffic with."
GMP and a few other forces have used Twitter to let go data and make appeals.
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