“Empowering Through Education / Preventing Through Action” January is Crime Stoppers Awareness Month

Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce is celebrating its successful partnership between the community, law enforcement, and media. Crime Stoppers works to educate the public and create awareness on illegal activities in an effort to help promote the Canadian values of safety, empowerment, and inclusion. Creating awareness and mobilizing Canadians in reporting suspicious or criminal activity anonymously requires a network of partners working together for a common end. Remember: Community Safety is a shared responsibility.

Crime Stopper’s success is reflected in the numbers. In Grey and Bruce Counties police were supplied with just over 700 tips from Crime Stoppers in the last year. These tips resulted in the recovery of over $117,000 of stolen property and the seizure of over $590,000 worth of drugs and proceeds. Since our inception in 1987 Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce’s tips have led to the seizure or recovery of over 55.7 MILLION DOLLARS in drugs, cash, and property!

Make a Difference in Your Community

Crime Stoppers is overseen by a volunteer Board that is passionate about making a difference in their community, and the program is currently seeking self-motivated, committed members to represent the communities of Grey and Bruce Counties on the Board of Directors, or as volunteers for fundraising events and community awareness initiatives. Those with treasurer or secretary experience would be assets to the program.

As a registered charity Crime Stoppers relies on the generosity of community donors to fund the program in order to keep it sustainable.

How Crime Stoppers Works

Tips are received anonymously from “Tipsters” contacting Crime Stoppers. All tips are shared with police and other investigative agencies to be followed up on. Crime Stoppers works diligently to shield the identity of the Tipsters. If tip information is accurate and leads to an arrest or the recovery of drugs or stolen property, the Tipster may be eligible for a cash reward up to $2,000.

Crime Stoppers is best used by community members who do not wish to be identified or appear in court. “Tipsters” may have information about crime, and Crime Stoppers offers them an alternate resource to contacting police.

Crime Stoppers is not for emergency response. The community is encouraged to call 911 to report suspicious persons or crimes and public safety concerns that are in progress.

Tips can be reported to Crime Stoppers by online Web-Tip at www.cstip.ca; downloading the free P3 Tips mobile app; or by calling 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS). 

Media contact:

Peter Reid

Chairperson

Crime Stoppers of Grey Bruce Inc.

519-371-6078

Fax 519-371-1275

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