Crime Stoppers

Support Help Solve My Crime, Crime Stoppers & Neighbourhood Watch

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The public should actively support organizes like Help Solve My Crime, Crime Stoppers and Neighbourhood Watch in an attempt to solve, reduce and prevent crime. They are all community based programs founded on the premise that the community working co-operatively together can make a difference. While Crime Stoppers was founded some 40 years ago Help…

July 16, 2016

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Victims of Crime and Social Media

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Police in WA recently uploaded a holiday photo located on a stolen ipad on Facebook resulting in the post receiving some 50,000 hits with the owners of the ipad being identified. The ipad was stolen some eight months earlier and the victims were very surprised and very pleased when informed that it had been located…

July 17, 2013

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Just as Crime Stoppers was about to announce its financial demise this week due to a lack of funding the Victorian State Government came to its rescue allocating money. Since its inception Crime Stoppers has led to 60,000 arrests with over 14,000 calls received recently in the Jill Meagher murder case. The use of public…

November 10, 2012

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Crime Stoppers – Victoria

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Crime Stoppers encourages victims to report information about crimes which may otherwise not be accessible to Victoria Police and which will aid in resolving criminal matters. Crime Stoppers is a community service and can be contacted on 1800 333 000. If you have been the victim of a crime also contact Victims of Crime Counselling…

June 9, 2012

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