Are Crime Stoppers really anonymous?

Submit a completely anonymous tip via Crime Stoppers. All tips are handled by a third party service provider and use an encrypted chat system. You will never have physical contact with any law enforcement agency, and an additional reward, up to $1000, can be collected anonymously.

What happens when someone calls Crime Stoppers?

After you contact Crime Stoppers, our trained call takers capture information that you share with us and then we send it to police for investigation and follow-up where needed. Calls and online contacts to us are not traced or identified in any way.

Will Crime Stoppers do anything?

Crime Stoppers allows you to provide anonymous information about criminal activity to the police without being directly involved in the investigation process. It may seem insignificant to you but it could prove vital to the investigation, arrest and prosecution.

Are anonymous police tip lines really anonymous?

“Because we wouldn’t know how to contact them,” said Finch. Sebestyen added Tip Soft also cannot give information to anyone outside of their company. “We can’t retroactively go back and re-identify that data. Once it’s submitted and it’s anonymous, it’s anonymous forever.”

Do Crime Stoppers record calls?

Last year, Crimestoppers passed on 14,000 intelligence reports to the Metropolitan Police Service; and appeals for London’s Most Wanted criminals led to 45 arrests being made. No calls are ever recorded, and our charity’s specially-trained Call Handlers will make sure your report does not include any personal details.

How did Crime Stoppers start?

Crime Stoppers was started in Albuquerque, New Mexico when a Canadian-born Albuquerque Police Department detective reached a dead-end in a homicide investigation. Frustrated by the lack of clues, he appealed to a local television station and enlisted the station’s co-operation in a re-enactment of the crime.

Does Crime Stoppers work?

No, Crime Stoppers is a private, nonprofit organization that receives no tax dollars for its work. Crime Stoppers assists law enforcement officers and agencies but is not part of law enforcement.

What is an anonymous tip line?

An anonymous tip line is a telephone number set up by either a private organization or governmental law enforcement that allows people to report on crimes without exposing their identities.

What is crime stop?

Crimestop is a Newspeak term taken from the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. It means to rid oneself of unwanted thoughts, i.e., thoughts that interfere with the ideology of the Party. This way, a person avoids committing thoughtcrime.