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<\/a> these reports are then passed on to the police. It is important \u00a0to note that Crimestoppers is not the police but an independent charity \u00a0working to help communities. You can contact Crimestoppers to report \u00a0crimes with a free telephone call (0800 555 111) or by completing an \u00a0online form. If the information you give leads to an arrest, or is of signifi\ufffecant use, you may be eligible to claim a cash reward of up to \u00a31,000. The \u00a0Crimestoppers national website provides more information.<\/p>\nThe key to the success of Crimestoppers is that you can report crimes with confidence that your report \u00a0will remain anonymous. Indeed it’s rare for Crimestoppers to trumpet its successes because it can’t risk \u00a0compromising the guarantee of anonymity that it provides to everyone who gets in contact. No records \u00a0are kept of the personal details, phone numbers or computer IP addresses of anyone who makes contact.<\/p>\n
As Crimestoppers is not the police there are some things that the organisation cannot process. These \u00a0include fly-tipping, scam e-mails or phone calls, noise complaints, benefit fraud, dumped or untaxed \u00a0vehicles, minor driving offences or missing people. The website provides advice on what to do in \u00a0these circumstances.<\/p>\n
Crimestoppers has been a huge success. Since it began in 1988, it has received more than 2.2 million \u00a0actionable calls, resulting in more than 150,000 arrests and charges, more than \u00a3140 million worth of \u00a0stolen goods recovered and more than \u00a3367 million worth of illegal drugs seized. Between April 2022 \u00a0and March 2023, Crimestoppers sent police forces over 196,000 anonymous crime reports – that’s 537 \u00a0per day and 22 per hour. Some 60% of the reports sent to police forces are drugs-related. Typically, \u00a0they’re sightings of dealers in cars or on street corners, details of cannabis factories, or intelligence \u00a0about so-called county lines networks – the city-based gangs that supply drugs to rural areas and sea\ufffeside towns. Crimestoppers also has a Most Wanted UK-wide gallery with images, which since 2005 \u00a0has resulted in more than 5,000 arrests.<\/p>\n
Crimestoppers actually began in Alburquerque, New Mexico in 1976. Its UK origins appear to have \u00a0been linked to the October 1985 London riots. When PC Keith Blakelock was murdered at the Broad\ufffewater Farm Estate, the police appealed for information, stating that people knew who had been re\ufffesponsible but were frightened of coming forward. This according to the UK website, led in January \u00a01988, to the founding of the Community Action Trust (CAT), by Michael (later Lord) Ashcroft and \u00a0business partners. The CAT was a phone line where people called and anonymously provided infor\ufffemation about crime, which was then forwarded to the police. By 1995 it was re-named Crimestoppers \u00a0Trust and expanded to the whole of the UK.<\/p>\n
There is also however a counter claim that Crimestoppers originated in the town of Great Yarmouth in \u00a01983. Mike Cole, then a Detective Inspector with the Norfolk Constabulary, got the idea from a police \u00a0visit to the US. Inspired by what was happening in the US, Crimestoppers was set up in the town, with \u00a0the agreement of the police, financial support from the town\u2019s Woolworth store and publicity from the \u00a0local Yarmouth Mercury newspaper. Crimestoppers encouraged people to pass information to police \u00a0anonymously without fear of reprisal. Informants called a dedicated telephone number at Great Yar\ufffemouth Police Station. A reward was handed out in brown envelopes for information received, often in \u00a0dark alleys.<\/p>\n
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