What is Crime Stoppers?
Crime Stoppers is a program involving the public, the media, and the police in the fight against crime. It offers anonymity and cash rewards to anyone who provides information leading to the arrest and prosecution of criminal offenders and fugitives.
Who administers the program?
The Crime Stoppers Board of Directors is comprised of concerned citizens of the greater Madison area who oversee the program’s operations.
Crime Stoppers is a program which involves the public, the media, and the police in a fight against crime. It offers anonymity and cash rewards to persons who furnish information leading to the arrest and the filing of criminal charges against crime offenders and the capture of fugitives.
Crime Stoppers is a community program. The responsibility for establishing policy, raising funds and for controlling the amount of reward payments rests with the Board of Directors made up of involved citizens.
When a call is received by Crime Stoppers, it is logged with the date, time and a brief summary of the caller’s information. Callers are furnished with a secret code number which is used in subsequent transactions.
Callers remain anonymous, with no pressure to reveal their identity and still collect their rewards.
If the caller’s information results in the arrest and the filing of a criminal charge against a suspected criminal offender or the apprehension of a fugitive, arrangements may then be made so that the person can receive his/her reward in CASH and preserve his/her anonymity.
The Board of Directors oversees the program and approves the rewards to be paid, based on information presented by the Police Coordinator.