If you have information about criminal activity in your neighbourhood and you don’t want to get involved or give your name you can call Crimestoppers.
Crimestoppers is the only charity directly supporting the police to help detect crimes and bring offenders to justice. Crimestoppers take information about any crimes, for example, driving whilst disqualified or without insurance, receiving stolen goods, burglaries or drug dealing. Your suspicions are enough for the Crimestoppers call agent to research your information and pass it on to the police.
When you ring your call will not appear on itemised phone bills from a land line. Crimestoppers call agents don’t have caller line identifier (CLI); don’t have the 1471 facility; and never trace calls.
Call agents are forbidden from telling the police the gender, apparent ethnicity or age of any caller. If a caller has inadvertently said they live “next door,” or “are related” to the person they’ve given information about, this is automatically kept out of the report sent to the police.
If the information you give leads to somebody being arrested and charged, you can claim a cash reward of up to £1,000 and still stay anonymous.
When you call you ask for a reference number and ring up later on to find out if anybody has been arrested and charged. If someone has been, you will be asked to choose a bank from where you want to collect the cash, you go to the bank on a chosen day, give the reference number and you will be given the cash. No signature and no record.
If English is not your first language, Language-line is available so an interpreter can join in with the conversation to ensure you fully understand the questions.
When you ring Crimestoppers you will speak to a person not a machine.
The number is 0800 555 111 and the service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.