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Crimestoppers

Crimestoppers is a charity set up to run the phone number 0800 555 111. The phone number is for anyone with information about crime and criminals.

Crimestoppers is not run by the police. The Crimestoppers operator that answers your call is only interested in the crime you're reporting, not the person who's reporting it.

Crimestoppers is anonymous, which means they don't ask to know anything about you, and they won't ever give any information about you to the police or anyone else. So if you don't want to go to the police or reveal your identity, you can call Crimestoppers.

You will not be asked your name. Your call is not traced or recorded. You don't have to go to court or talk to the police.

Is it really anonymous?

Yes! Crimestoppers goes to great lengths to make sure no information about you gets to the police:

• the operator that answers your call won't ask any questions about you
• if you accidentally tell the operator anything about you or where you live, they don't write it down – they only write down information about the crime or criminal you're reporting
• before the information you've given Crimestoppers is passed on to the police, a specially trained person reads it through and takes out anything that could be traced back to you. Anything that's taken out is deleted from Crimestoppers computers – so it's impossible for the police or anyone else to see it
• calls to Crimestoppers don't show up on your phone bill, so no-one can see that you've called them.