PROTECTING YOU, WITH OUR ANONYMOUS TIP LINE

Any Niagara Resident may choose to either call, type or text your tip to Crime Stoppers.

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ONLINE TIPS

WE WORK HARD TO PUT AWAY BAD PEOPLE WHILE KEEPING YOU TOTALLY ANONYMOUS

To ensure your information and identity remains anonymous Crime Stoppers Niagara invites you to follow the steps below.

CALL: toll free 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) anywhere in North America.

TYPE: To enter a tip online, please use this form.

For reward purposes, you will be given a unique code number. Do not disclose it to anyone other than the tip operator when you call the Crime Stopper’s for an update.

After you have sent your tip a confirmation reference number will be given or sent to you. This reference number allows you to follow up with Crime Stoppers at a later date whether the tip resulted in an arrest. Do not lose or disclose this number to anyone except Crime Stoppers.

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ONTARIO STATISTICS

Arrests: 124,106

Cases Cleared: 132,418

• Rewards Paid: $8,054,391

• Arson Loss Value: $16,472,779

• Property Recovered: $303,027,822

• Drugs Seized: $1,918,401,534

•Total Dollars Recovered: $2,221,419,356

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How to Stop, Solve and Prevent Crime – Together

Crime Stoppers is a program, separate from the emergency telephone number system or other standard methods of contacting police, that allows a member of the community to provide anonymous information about criminal activity. This allows a person to provide crime solving assistance to the authorities without being directly involved in the investigation process. Like Niagara, Crime Stopper programs are operated in many communities worldwide.
It was in July of 1976, which saw the fatal shooting of Michael Carmen while he was working one night at a local filling station in Albuquerque, New Mexico which started it all.

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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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.