Results from cases listened at Birmingham Magistrates' Court have been put on Twitter by West Midlands Police.
Ch Supt Stephen Anderson mentioned there had been a reject in justice stating in new years.
He mentioned the first move was written to make the open more wakeful of the cases military dealt with.
The force sent its own staff in to justice for a sunrise on Tuesday to casing the cases and post them online mins after they had concluded.
It mentioned the updates on the micro-blogging site were the first ever "tweet-a-thon" from a justice centre.
The tweets from the Grade I-listed Victorian building were posted on Tuesday morning.
Police mentioned they had received a "really positive" reply from the public.
Their last twitter from justice was: "Morning justice event finished, hope today's justice tweeting has been interesting. Watch this space for more justice tweeting soon."
Among the first cases the force tweeted about were a lady indicted of hidden flour and cucumber from a emporium and a 58-year-old human who certified a assign of celebration and driving.
The human was right away criminialized from pushing for 3 years, but will be entirely condemned at a after that date.
A 24-year-old human was fined 200 for hidden electric fans and a human and a girl were indicted of robbing a child of a 500 bike.
Other cases tweeted about enclosed a 39-year-old Bromford human remanded to climax justice until July indicted of major wounding and crook damage and a lady who pleaded guilty to shoplifting mascara from a emporium by hiding it in her bra.
Speaking before the beginning of Tuesday's initiative, Mr Anderson said: "We've seen over new years a bit of a reject in justice reporting, quite by local newspapers as they've faced their own financial constraints.
"That's tended to outcome in the broad open not knowing what happens in justice and what the outcomes at courts are."
Dominic Ponsford, editor of the Press Gazette, mentioned the tweets drew concern to a wider problem.
"The West Midlands Police Twitter attempt highlights a major situation - the concern that local newspapers aren't covering magistrates' courts as comprehensively as they once did," he said.
"But this is a bad deputy is to arrange of service you would obtain from a local journal - not smallest since they do not add any of the names of people charged and convicted, thereby denuding the tweets of all local interest."
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