1. Crimestoppers in Scotland’s Communities
Introduce the work of crimestoppers and give a UK national picture and present our impacts in Scotland
Also be referencing how new align our core objectives to the Scottish Government’s Community Safety and Building Safer Communities Programme
Crime Stoppers first began in Albuquerque, New Mexico during July 1975, which saw the fatal shooting of Michael Carmen while he was working one night at a local filling station. After two weeks the police had no information when out of desperation Detective Greg MacAleese approached the local television station requesting a reconstruction of the crime. The re-enactment offered US$1, for information leading to the arrest of the killers.
Within 72 hours, a person called in identifying a car leaving the scene at high speed and he had noted its registration. The person calling said that he did not want to get involved so he had not called earlier. Detective MacAleese then realized that fear and apathy were the primary reasons why the public tended not to get involved. So he helped design a system where the public could anonymously provide details of the events. This system focused on stimulating community involvement and participation, taking advantage of every possible media opportunity, especially electronic media, to publicise unsolved crimes; and offering cash rewards for information leading to an arrest and/or conviction.
In 1985, PC Keith Blakelock was murdered during the riots at the Broadwater Farm Estate in London and the police appealed for information, stating that people knew who had been responsible but were frightened of coming forward.
Michael Ashcroft (now Lord Ashcroft, KCMG and Chairman of the Trustees of Crimestoppers), a businessman, offered to provide the police with money for a reward to encourage somebody to come forward with information. This led to discussions with the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, resulting in Michael Ashcroft founding the establishment of a national operation in the UK in January 1988.

2. Did you know? Crimestoppers is ? INDEPENDENT CHARITY & NOT CRIMEWATCH!
It is an ANONYMOUS reporting line – NOT Confidential
No call has ever been traced in over 25 years
?? brand awareness
93%
Crimestoppers don’t advertise any specific positive outcomes to prevent a caller being identified
Rewards are paid but don’t jeopardise anonymity
The only positive outcome we speak of is Antoni Imiela (born 1954, West Germany) is a British criminal of German and Polish origin, found guilty of the rape of nine women and girls, and the kidnap, indecent assault, and attempted rape of another girl. The crimes took place in Surrey, Kent, Berkshire, London, Hertfordshire and Birmingham, and the press gave the fugitive the soubriquet of the M25 Rapistafter the M25 motorway that passes in the vicinity of all but one of these areas.
Imiela was finally caught with the use of DNA profiling. Once police had his DNA they launched a public appeal for information which resulted in a woman coming forward who expressed suspicion about her neighbour and rang CRIMESTOPPERS. A DNA swab test was carried out on the individual, Antoni Imiela, which enabled police to link him to the attacks. He was subsequently arrested.
On the 4th of March 2004, he was sentenced to seven life sentences at Maidstone Crown Court for the crimes.

3. Contacting Crimestoppers
Over 50 % of all information is now received via anonymous on-line report
Also available is anonymous 2-way on-line reporting
Officers receiving information from Crimestoppers 2-way reports can send questions to the bureau to be communicated to the correspondent.
Same levels of anonymity apply to online reporting. The security removes the IP address from the information report so Crimestoppers cannot contact the correspondent.
Quality of online reports is improving consistently with constant reviews carried out on questions asked online and quality checking of reports received.
2-way online recently launched. This uses the same reporting form and correspondents are asked if they will communicate with Crimestoppers in the future.
Early reports suggest that over 30% of correspondents are happy to communicate via 2-way reports.
The 2-way reporting allows officers to consider what information they have on an actionable information report and then ask Crimestoppers to ask questions which may assist. Crimestoppers will not ‘Task’ a correspondent and adhere very closely to RIPA 2000.

5. Community concerns drive local campaigns
50 volunteers represent their communities
44 Volunteer Committees partner Police force areas
30,000 social media followers
Crime prevention advice shared online
Daily appeals in the national and local press
Outreach in schools and community groups
Fearless
Community concerns drive local campaigns
500 volunteers represent their communities
44 Volunteer Committees partner Police force areas
30,000 social media followers
Crime prevention advice
Daily appeals in the national and local press
Outreach in schools and community groups

6. 30,000 members of the public contact Crimestoppers for help
UK Wide Crimestoppers has an impact every month…
30,000 members of the public contact Crimestoppers for help
10,500 pieces of information disseminated to Law Enforcement
1,300 positive outcomes delivered by Police
500 criminals arrested and charged

7. Help Solve 3 Murders a Week
In 26 years the British public has anonymously brought 128,000 criminals to justice through Crimestoppers
Help Solve 3 Murders a Week
Every 30 mins Crimestoppers information delivers a police outcome
£53 million of drugs recovered from just two anonymous tips
1 in 4 criminals on Most Wanted are identified

8. Impact in Scotland
10,000 pieces of actionable intelligence sent to PS & LE (15/16)
Crimestoppers positive outcomes: 1,371 including 396 arrests and charges
In Scotland over £2 million value in property/assets and street value of drugs
1 in 4 Criminals are arrested and Charged in Most Wanted
After London, CS in Scotland disseminates the highest number of reports to Police Scotland
Positive Outcome doesn’t always mean an arrest and charge – here’s an example
PS received anonymous information that a female was selling drugs from a flat in Glasgow’s East End. The caller was previously not known to Police
Officers attended the premises and found no evidence of drugs. however, 3 children under 5 were living there. The conditions and care of the childen and the mental health of the mother alerted social work who intervened as well as the housinh association
This demonstrates the often wider impact a call to crimestoppers can often make that’s not recorded as an arrest and charge but can provide a real social impact to people and the communities they live in. So there are many stories be hind our stats but our guarentee of anonimity prevents us from disclosing the detail.

9. Average cost of investigating a murder?
£1 million
In 2014/15 Crimestoppers intelligence directly solved 3 = £3 million

10. 79 fugitives sought: 64 (84%) arrested
Most Wanted / Rogues Gallery
79 fugitives sought: 64 (84%) arrested
Wanted criminals now give themselves up

15. 2016 New Scrap Metal Dealer Legislation
Media release with artwork
Targeted call to action communications across scrapyard dealers
External Billboards adjacent to Scrapyard Dealers
Landing page with links
Sharing campaign resources
Social media phase
Intelligence Summary, Case Studies, Evaluation