Crimestoppers – 100% anonymity to anyone who contacts them.

Suzanne and I enjoyed a most enlightening visit to Crimestoppers.

We visited their national headquarters and met with Mick Duthie, Glenys Balchin, Lee Tinson and Phil Jebb from the executive team together with the Chair of Crimestoppers, and volunteer, Dr Lynne Hack. It was a very illuminating visit. Crimestoppers is an independent charity, not affiliated with the Police with over 100 staff and 350 volunteers. They guarantee 100% anonymity to anyone who contacts them. 80% of approaches are now made on-line and 20% by phone call. They are open 24/7 every day and handled some 750,000 approaches last year, of which over 200,000 contained information that was passed on to the Police. Anonymity is achieved as no contact information is requested.

Glenys and Phil look after Surrey with 14 volunteers and hold regular community events to publicise the service. Crimestoppers has a separate service called Fearless which is aimed at 10-18 year olds which is more geared to providing useful information to young people, although it also allows them to provide information anonymously as well. Extensive training is given to all operators handling calls and on-line reports and their diligence, together with the proactive action of members of the public, makes a significant difference in helping both prevent crime and identifying perpetrators.

Crimestoppers can be contacted  online https://crimestoppers-uk.org/ and by phone on 0800 555 111

Our Fearless youth service  https://crimestoppers-uk.org/fearless and by phone on 0800 555 111