Rourke Walsh, The West Australian, 27 May 2019 More than 5000 Australian criminals were arrested and charged last year as a direct result of public tip-offs to Crime Stoppers, a report has revealed. The Crime Stoppers Australia Impact Report, released today to mark 20 years of the hotline operating in all…
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‘We’ve got to think of meth as a different beast’
By Eliza Wynn, Avon Valley Advocate – March 2019 As part of his work as the face of the Crime Stoppers WA Dob in a Dealer campaign, West Coast Eagles veteran Daniel Kerr visited students at Northam Senior High School last week to warn of the impacts of drugs. The previously troubled…
Crime Stoppers WA’s Civics and Citizenship program wins international award
CRIME Stoppers WA’s Civics and Citizenship program has been recognised at the 2018 Crime Stoppers International Conference in The Hague, Netherlands. The free online program, developed in 2017, links the themes of democratic values, active citizenship, laws and crime with the community reporting role of Crime Stoppers. Schools from across Perth have…
Anonymity rules in the valuable world of crime tip-offs
What is the secret ingredient that has made Crime Stoppers a community success for the past 23 years in Western Australia? As a board member of Crime Stoppers WA for the past five years, I can answer that question in one word – anonymity. The anonymity concept originated in 1976 when a…
Victoria’s first Crime Stoppers co-ordinator Ken McKenzie dies aged 65
Extract from Herald Sun, June 23, 2017 A former senior policeman who played a major role in introducing Crime Stoppers to Victoria has died, aged 65. Ken McKenzie was the first police co-ordinator of Crime Stoppers when the program started in Victoria nearly 30 years ago. Later, after retiring from Victoria Police…
‘Report crime, don’t post it on Facebook’
Hannah Barry, WA Today 13/6/17 Nearly one hundred Banksia Grove residents have turned out to a ‘crisis meeting’ with Wanneroo Police after a number of residents took to social media to post about incidents of assault, violence, drug-dealing, theft and vandalism occurring in the area. The meeting, held at Joseph Banks College, was…
Citizens defeat terrorists
Opinion piece featured in The Sunday Times, 28 May 2017 We can’t climb into the hateful minds of terrorists. How can we even start to understand how they rationalise indiscriminate slaughter of young people attending a pop concert? But we can identify with the outpouring of solidarity and compassion shown by affected…
No crime is committed in secret
Opinion piece featured in The West Australian 09 Feb 2017 Why do the nine principles of policing, developed over one hundred and eighty years ago by Sir Robert Peel, have as much significance today as they did back in 1829? Sir Robert Peel, founder of the London Metropolitan Police, set out…
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