What does Crime Stoppers want to know?
Crime Stoppers wants your information not your name. You will be asked questions about the information you are giving us – but you will not be asked your name, address, or anything that will allow us to identify you. Our call operators are not allowed to let the police know anything about you which may reveal your identity, e.g. if the call is about a neighbour of yours we will not disclose this. We don’t even make a note of your gender. Crime Stoppers wants to do the best, but we need as much information as possible from you in order to pass useful data onto the police. This means that our call operator will ask you questions about what you know. This helps check that your information can be acted upon by the police – the more details they have, the more likely they will be able to take action. NEVER put yourself at risk, or abuse a position of trust to discover information about crime or criminals. What type of questions will I be asked? This will obviously depend on the crime and wh