Greater Manchester Police tweet offering help if you're 'annoyed with your drug dealer' goes viral

Force claims to have solved problem of unregulated illegal market

Armed response officers from Greater Manchester Police pose with Heckler and Koch G36 assualt rifles, also used by the Civil Nuclear Constabulary (Getty Images)

Greater Manchester Police claims to have solved the age-old problem of what to do when you get ripped off by a drug dealer – tell officers so they can “have a word”.

The force’s light-hearted take on the issue (an admittedly serious one of the unregulated black market for illegal drugs) has gone down a storm on Twitter, with a joke tweet receiving dozens of responses and thousands of retweets.

GMP’s Urmston branch wrote: “Annoyed with your drug dealer? Tell us who it is and we'll have a word with them for you.”

It represents a marked viral success for the force, which often receives no retweets whatsoever, but judging by the similarly jokey responses is unlikely to help catch any more drug dealers.