Monday, August 13, 2012

Tipline is the most Vital & Important tool for crime witness

The Law enforcement officials say's that tip lines are a valuable resource for the witnesses who may fear retaliation from criminals, and also for investigators they need the public's help to crack cases or engage together.In San Diego country the Crime stoppers offers up to $1,000 for unscrupulous tips leading to arrests in criminal cases that have troubled investigators to crack the case. the most recent year 2008-2010 for which complete data was available, the organization gave 344 rewards worth a total of $90,843.

Higher officials with the organization determine the reward amounts is a case by case basis,the factors that include the number of arrests, the severity of the crime and the amount of property recovered from that crime.The crime stoppers received 23,805 tips and they solved upto 4,265 cases between the nonprofit's inception in 1984 and the end of June,the source & records according to that organization provided late last month.Almost the tips collected by Crime Stoppers led to the arrests of 3,110 people.

The local Law Enforcement authorities revealed that Crime Stoppers is a valuable resource,in 2010, the most recent year for which tax documents were available,and the Crime Stoppers brought in $217,922 in revenue and they spent $234,268, according to tax documents,now the organization had $210,993 in net assets at the end of 2010, $66,533 of which it had set aside for rewards and it had offered in cases that were waiting to be solved.

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