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1-800-222-TIPS (8477)

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  • Crime Profiles
  • HUMAN TRAFFICKING
  • Submit A Tip
  • Community Events
  • Join the Board
  • Sponsors
  • Statistics
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Our Mission

At Durham Regional Crime Stoppers, our mission is to protect and serve the community by providing the highest level of public safety to ensure the well-being of all residents. 

Crime Stoppers works to educate the public and create awareness that there is a platform to anonymously report crime. 

 Crime doesn't pay but, we do. 

Welcome to Crime Stoppers

Welcome to Durham Regional Crime Stoppers

Welcome to Durham Regional Crime Stoppers

Welcome to Durham Regional Crime Stoppers

  Our Mission Statement


At Durham Regional Crime Stoppers, it is our goal to maintain a program, across Durham Region, in order to solicit information from ANONYMOUS  sources with the intention of solving crimes, preventing criminal activities and educating the communities within Durham Region.

Anonymity

Welcome to Durham Regional Crime Stoppers

Welcome to Durham Regional Crime Stoppers

Your identity is important to us and we will do everything it takes to keep our sources anonymous. 

 "Durham Regional Crime Stoppers does not use telephone call display and does not track identifiers of mobile or internet tipsters.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled tipsters remain anonymous.  Only a judge issuing a judicial authorizatio

Your identity is important to us and we will do everything it takes to keep our sources anonymous. 

 "Durham Regional Crime Stoppers does not use telephone call display and does not track identifiers of mobile or internet tipsters.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled tipsters remain anonymous.  Only a judge issuing a judicial authorization could order a tipster be identified.  This has very restricted usage in Canadian law.

Any tipster that missuses Crime Stoppers to further criminal or illegal activity will not be protected by the anonymous guarantee."

For more information click on the link below 

Anonymity makes the difference.

TIPSTER INFORMATION 


TIPS Need to be Paid...

Welcome to Durham Regional Crime Stoppers

TIPS Need to be Paid...

Crime Stoppers is a Not for Profit Organization which relies on the funding and donations of money, goods or services to keep Operations fluent and to pay the successful tips that are Board approved.  


We have also partnered with Canada Helps therefore, if you wish to contribute through this organization please contact

Canada Helps

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Crime Stoppers is a Not for Profit Organization which relies on the funding and donations of money, goods or services to keep Operations fluent and to pay the successful tips that are Board approved.  


We have also partnered with Canada Helps therefore, if you wish to contribute through this organization please contact

Canada Helps

http://www.canadahelps.org/CharityProfilePage.aspx?CharityID=s71340 

How Did Crime Stoppers get started...

What you need to know...

 

Crime Stoppers was the brainchild of  Canadian-born Greg MacAleese, a Detective with the Albuquerque Police  Department in New Mexico. In 1976, Greg had run out of leads in a  homicide investigation and out of frustration had appealed to the public  for assistance. He went so far as to produce the first crime  re-enactment, which aired on local television, and was also made  available for radio and the press. Anyone providing information  regarding this murder was to be eligible for a cash reward.

Within  hours of the broadcast, an individual called in valuable information  that resulted in the arrest and conviction of two suspects who were  sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole.

The  growth has been dramatic, with Crime Stoppers programs implemented in  more than 1,200 communities worldwide. In November 1982, Calgary became  the first Canadian city to start the program, followed by Hamilton in  1983. Hamilton was the first city in Ontario to implement the program  and there are currently over 112 programs across Canada with 38 programs  in Ontario.

In 1986 the Crime  Stoppers Program was started in Durham and became part of the Toronto  and Regional Crime Stoppers Boards (TRCSB) made up of Metro Toronto, Peel,  York and Durham. Each region had its own board with representation on  the TRCSB. In 1989 Durham Regional Crime Stoppers obtained its own Charter  and Not For Profit status and resigned from the Toronto and Region  Crime Stoppers Board.


drcs celebrates 35 years of service in durham region - 2021

Our Story....

  

In April of 1986, Chief of Police, Jon Jenkins, gathered a select group of civilians and created the not-for-profit organization. The primary goal of Durham Regional Crime Stoppers is to encourage the public to communicate criminal activity. The program shares those tips with the police for investigation while the tipster remains completely anonymous. Should a tip result in an arrest a monetary reward will be issued. 


Durham Regional Crime Stoppers would like to give thanks to the community for 35 years of continued support. This milestone is a direct result of donations from the public, corporate sponsors and funds raised from various charity events.

The endless outpouring of anonymous tips, dedication to reducing crime and facilitate justice make Durham Region a safer place to call home.  


Since inception, Durham Regional Crime Stoppers has received over 41,000 tips, resulting in 3,984 arrests, $7.5 million in property recovered, $83.4 million in drugs seized and over $625,000 awarded to tipsters for reporting these crimes. 


For 35 years, this program has been an outstanding success. This year, Durham Regional Crime Stoppers aims to continue keeping our neighborhoods safe by targeting human trafficking and drug related crimes. 

Remember, crime doesn’t pay but Crime Stoppers does

Durham Regional Crime Stoppers

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