January is Crime Stoppers month

January is Crime Stoppers month worldwide.
More than 1,200 Crime Stoppers civilian, community-owned programs can celebrate their success in assisting law enforcement agencies to make more than half-a-million arrests while solving over one million crimes.
More than $5 billion worth of narcotics have been seized, and in excess of $1.7 billion worth of stolen property has been recovered due to the efforts and success of Crime Stoppers.
Volunteers worldwide, and locally, have raised more than $70 million in order to be able to pay out cash rewards to those who have provided valuable anonymous information that has solved crime which otherwise could have remained unsolved.
Locally, Crime Stoppers has been very successful by helping to solve more than 1,500 crimes while taking over $5 million of drugs and stolen property off our area streets.
I’m Gary Potter of the OPP and I say thank you to everyone, including all of our civilian volunteers, corporate sponsors, and media and law enforcement partners, for making Crime Stoppers a very successful community-enhancing program in Northwestern Ontario and now in northern Minnesota, too.