Today’s average citizens can be on crime-fighting’s front lines with our Crime Stopper Tip Hotline’s advanced technology. It facilitates instant and anonymous communication between a witness and law enforcement personnel. Crime Stopper records and forwards citizen’s tips to enable immediate action to be taken to prevent a crime, to stop a crime in progress, and to resolve crimes. It can be set to be anonymous to give a timid witness a safe place to provide crucial information to law enforcement. Crime Stopper is designed to be used by an individual department, agency or facility, allowing local law enforcers and security personnel to monitor real-time tips and to spring into action when necessary. Oftentimes a witness does not feel comfortable speaking with police in public because of the fear of retribution if they are seen “snitching”. An investigating Officer or Detective interviewing people in the field can give their business card which displays their Anonymous Tip Hotline phone number. The witness will then feel comfortable providing a tip from the privacy of their home. With Crime Stopper, witness tips are recorded at a local police department, sheriff’s office or other facility – a school or airport’s security office, for instance – and instant text and email alerts are sent to duty personnel who listen to the tip and take appropriate action in real-time. As soon as the citizen leaves their tip and hangs up, the predetermined officer or agency staff member receives an email or text alert indicating a tip was called in, to which they can begin listening to it in seconds via email attachment or by calling into the system and logging in via tip review mode.
Crime Stopper is adaptable and scalable to every law-enforcement scenario, including State and Local PD’s, Sheriff Departments, Homeland Security, the FBI and the TSA, and Schools (for crime, graffiti and bullying tips). It simply connects to a law enforcement office pc’s USB port, and to one or more phone lines, and its control software is installed on that pc. It runs in the background so the pc doesn’t need to be dedicated. The Tip Hotline phone number can be displayed on an officer’s business card, on a billboard and other signage, and on the institution’s website to make the public aware of the hotline’s phone number. The key advantage of using Crime Stopper is its immediacy. In less than 30 seconds from receipt of a tip, the appropriate officer is able to listen and take action. And its ability to keep tip’s anonymous brings in tips that otherwise would go unreported. The Crime Stopper Tip Hotline is based on our Officer Field Reporting System that is in use in many local and State Police Departments and Sheriff’s Offices nationwide. Our Field Reporting System, called DigiTel is our Call-In Dictation System that captures an officer’s field data verbatim and delivers it to clerical staff for immediate follow-up and report generation. It’s also available as our Call-In Service called DigiCloud.
