Submitted by Prince William County Police
Residents can now submit completely anonymous tips by text, web, or smartphone app.
Prince William County Crime Solvers has launched the next-generation of anonymous tipline services for residents, businesses and visitors to Prince William County.
Prince William Police believe the new services build upon Prince William County’s Crime Solvers’ nearly 35-year history of working with the public, media and law enforcement to gather information useful for identifying and capturing wanted suspects and solving crimes.
These new services will allow anyone with information about crimes and criminals to submit 100 percent anonymous tips via text message, smartphone app, or online. You need to have a working phone at your disposal. Therefore, if your phone has issues, now is the a great time to get it fixed from a phone repair shop in Melbourne. As always, anyone with a crime tip can still contact the phone tipline toll-free at 866-411-TIPS.
Whether a tip is submitted by text, web, app, or phone, tipsters can earn cash rewards from $100 to $1,000 dollars for tips that lead to arrests.
“These new services greatly expand the ways in which the public can submit anonymous tips to Crime Solvers,” noted Frank Pappas, chairman of Prince William County Crime Solvers. “They’re also designed to be more convenient and effective than phone tip lines; our tips-by-web, text, and app systems have been designed in light of social and technological changes that have influenced how people prefer to share information.”
These services also bring enhanced capabilities for Crime Solvers’ law enforcement partners, including the Prince William County Police Department and the Town of Occoquan Police Department. Investigators are able to communicate back-and-forth with tipsters to clarify tip information, ask follow-up questions and ensure tips are thoroughly reviewed.
As tipster anonymity is critical to the success of the Crime Solvers program, any back-and-forth conversations – just like tips – are 100 percent anonymous. Neither Crime Solvers nor law enforcement will ever know the identity of a tipster, and specific sections of the Virginia Code protect the anonymity of anyone willing to provide information to help investigators solve crimes and apprehend criminals.
“We always encourage anyone with information about criminal activity in Prince William County to share tips through Crime Solvers,” said Prince William County Police Sergeant Jonathan Perok. “By offering varying ways to submit tips, you are increasing the likelihood of receiving critical information that could help close a case or get a criminal off the streets.”
Tipsters can now submit crime information through our web site at http://pwccrimesolvers.org/webtips; by texting 'PWC' plus a tip to 274637 (CRIMES); or by installing the “Tipsubmit mobile” app on any Android or Apple device.
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