Crime Stoppers is a Police-Community Program geared toward the fight against crime. It involves the PUBLIC, the MEDIA, and the POLICE
Adams County Crime Stoppers offers cash rewards up to $1000 and anonymity to citizens who furnish information leading to the arrest, bind over, and or conviction of all felony and certain misdemeanor offenders, and the recover of stolen property and dangerous drugs.
Adams County Crime Stoppers is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization that is funded primarily by private donations from members of the community. This includes individuals, corporations, associations, clubs, retailers and other organizations.
Program Administration
A Board of Directors, composed of a cross section of citizens throughout the Adams County area, oversees the Crime Stoppers Program. They determine and approve the rewards to be paid, based on the information presented by the Law Enforcement Liaison Coordinator. The citizen who furnishes the information to Crime Stoppers remains anonymous. The Board is presented only the facts and the code number assigned when the call was received. No other identifier is used.
Media Involvement
In order to publicize the Crime Stoppers Program and maintain a high profile in the community, specific unsolved felony or misdemeanor crime is selected weekly and featured. In addition, the selected crime is aired on the radio and appears in the newspapers and on TV.
Crime Stoppers does not pay for TV, radio and newspaper time or space. Participating area newspapers, radio stations and TV stations absorb these expenses as a public service.
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