RECIEVE UP $200 FOR REPORTING ILLEGAL DUMPING

If you feel that a crime is being committed towards the environment, CALL or SUBMIT a TIP anonymously

Illegal Dumping Is A Crime

The Niagara Region along with each local municipality are working together to tackle the issue of illegal dumping. Illegal dumping is the disposing of materials on public roads, ditches, public property, rural areas, vacant lots and in public litter receptacles.
Commonly dumped items include tires, mattresses, furniture, household garbage, appliances and yard waste.
If you feel that a crime is being committed towards the environment, CALL or SUBMIT a TIP anonymously

Call 1-800-222-TIPS

Click to call and make an ANONYMOUS report due to illegal dumping in the Niagara Region.

See It – Report It

We are working with all 12 local municipalities to address illegal dumping.
Illegal dumping is the disposing of material in non designated areas, such as public roads, ditches, public property, rural areas, vacant lots and in public litter receptacles.

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WORKING WITH THE REGION

Illegal dumping cost municipalities thousands of dollars every year, but the Niagara region is hoping to curb the growing problem. It’s teaming up with Crime Stoppers, the first to do so in Ontario, to encourage more people to report illegal dumping. Niagara’s Waste Management services received 589 calls for illegal dumping last year, that’s up just over 10%. It cost them $40 000 last year to clean up. Popular spots include the Welland Canal, ditches and rural fields and many of the items people throw out the region accepts during regular weekly pickup. Items like propane tanks can be dropped off at transfer stations free of charge, construction debris like shingles and pipes can be dropped off at the region’s landfill. The region already has a reward system for people to report illegal dumping.

It hopes the anonymous reporting system with Crime Stoppers will encourage more people to call. Anyone found guilty of illegally dumping could be fined $500 to as much as $10 000.

If you have any information to help us solve a crime, please call 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) Your identity will remain anonymous!

WHEN TO CALL CRIME STOPPERS?

Maybe you overheard someone bragging about having committed a crime. Maybe you know someone who is driving a stolen car… or is hiding from the police… or is a robber or drug dealer. Or maybe you just see something that doesn’t look right. A strange car. A person acting sneaky. Someone carrying a gun or knife or keeping a weapon in their locker. If you aren’t sure that what you saw or heard is really a crime, call anyway. We’ll pass the tip on to our law enforcement partners and they can decide if its worth investigating. It may be a piece of a clue to a major crime.

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CONTACTING CRIME STOPPERS – 24/7

HOW CRIME STOPPERS WORKS

CONTACTING CRIME STOPPERS – 24/7

Step 1

Call our direct line at 1 800 222 TIPS (8477). You will be assigned a special code number (PIN) which you will identify yourself with in all future dealings with Crime Stoppers. Your call will not be traced nor recorded. CRIME STOPPERS DOES NOT SUBSCRIBE TO CALL DISPLAY. You cannot be called to testify in court as no one will know who you are – not even Crime Stoppers.

Step 2

Go to the web at www.crimestoppersniagara.com and follow the link from the Submit A tip box. A form will come up on the screen. Fill in the information you know. Do not include your name or any information that could identify yourself. You may want to add more information later or we may have additional questions that we like to ask you via the web. To follow-up on this tip anonymously later, you can log into Tip Follow Up, and using a password that you select on the form or one will be assigned to you automatically when you submit this tip. Remember this password as this is the only you can communicate back. When you submit the tip, the link is broken and can’t be traced.

Step 3

Cash Reward – Unlike other reward programs which require “arrest and conviction” before paying for information, Crime Stoppers pays once the information leads to an arrest of the suspect(s) or a positive outcome. Your cash reward will be passed on to you anonymously after you provide the special code assigned to you.

Step 4

Who runs Crime Stoppers? Crime Stoppers is NOT a police program. Crime Stoppers is run by a citizen volunteer Board of Directors Board comprised of a group of concerned citizens. The Board administers the fund for reward payments and is responsible for fundraising efforts. Money raised by the Board comes from community events and sponsorship by local citizens and businesses.

HOW THE TIPSTER PAYOUT SYSTEM WORKS

Our tipster payout system meets the criteria established by the Ontario Association of Crime Stoppers and Crime Stoppers International. A civilian coordinator takes the tipster’s anonymous call or web tip and documents the details of the call, giving the caller only a confidential code number. Callers are instructed to call the Crime Stoppers tip line back with their code number the day after the monthly board meeting when the reward amount is determined. As well, the caller is then instructed as to how, when and where to pick up their cash reward; always at a confidential drop point.