Crimestoppers on social networking websites
Crimestoppers has more than 1,000 members on social networking websites Facebook and Bebo.
Our mission on Facebook and Bebo is to reach a wider audience to tell them about Crimestoppers and the invaluable community service we provide.
Via social networking websites, we can keep our members up-to-date with Crimestoppers' news and give them the option to discuss crimes in the news. On Facebook, we can also highlight some of the Most Wanted criminals from our website.
Please become a member of our pages on Facebook and Bebo to help spread Crimestoppers' message!
Latest Crimestoppers statistics*
The following statistics are Crimestoppers official statistics so far this year (since April 2008):
1,704 criminals have been arrested and charged
21,817 calls to Crimestoppers with useful information
£3,145,199 worth of illegal drugs have been seized
£1,162,690 worth of stolen goods have been recovered
Did you know...?
As a result of information Crimestoppers receives:
17 people are arrested and charged every day
Somebody is charged with murder every 5 days
Sex offenders
One of Crimestoppers' most high profile partnerships is working with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre.
So far, nine of the UK's highest risk child sex offenders have been located thanks to the Most Wanted website.
"Recentely, we discovered an offender who was running an online peer-to-peer group, that was offering live child abuse by request. Before going in and raiding his house, we had to make sure that he couldn't quickly access technology that would enable him to deny all knowledge of his website.
"We eventually reached a stage where it was safe for us to arrest him. Not only did we arrest him, but we kept the website running posing as him, so we caught numerous more child sex offenders and rescued a number of children too."
Read the full case study of an Offender Management Team Leader at CEOP