Crimestoppers
Fearless - our youth service
Anonymity guaranteed
At Crimestoppers, we believe everyone has the right to feel safe, wherever they live.
We're an independent charity that gives you the power to speak up and stop crime, 100% anonymously. We don’t judge. We just listen to what you know, and pass it on for you.
We're here to help you tackle crime in your community - by phone and online, 24/7, 365 days a year.
It can be difficult to come forward with information. You might have seen or heard something about a crime but don't know what to do, or are scared to tell someone. It's easy to think there is nothing you can do, but we offer you a safe way to do this. No police. No witness statements. No courts.
Crimestoppers is not an emergency service and if you see a crime taking place you should ring 999 to report it immediately.
There may be times when information received by Crimestoppers is passed on to our trusted partner organisations. Crimestoppers will only share this information to help keep communities and workplaces safe.
Do you have information?
Watch our short video to find out eactly what we mean by anonymity:
For further information on the steps we take to guarantee your anonymity on the phone and online:
English not your first language?
If English isn't your first language, we take telephone calls in over 140 different languages, and our online reporting form is also available in all those languages. Simply go to the language option at the top of this page for these languages.
The Crimestoppers guarantee
Our service is unique and designed to protect your identity. In all the years that we have been running, no one has ever been identified after giving information. It is vital that we guarantee your anonymity because if your identity became known, our reputation would be seriously damaged.
- You will not be asked to reveal your name or any personal details.
- We will listen to any information you have on a crime.
- Your call will not be recorded.
- We have no caller line display, no 1471 facility and have never traced a call.
- Calls are free from all phones, landline or mobile, and will not show up on your bill.
- Our specially trained call agents will support you through the process and make sure your report contains no information that could identify you.
- We do not make a note of gender, accents, apparent age or ethnicity of any caller.
- If you give us information, on the phone or online, in a language other than English, we will not record that your information has been received in a different language.
- Even if you give personal details, they will not be recorded, and we will pass information to the relevant authority without revealing your identity.
- When you report via our online form, you can do so safe in the knowledge that your device’s IP addresses are overwritten, masked and can never be traced.
Stay safe - online and on the phone
If you are giving information by mobile phone, when you have finished your call, you can go into your phone's 'Recents' list and delete your call to us from the list straight away - just look for the word 'delete' or the bin symbol.
When you use our anonymous online form, you may want to ensure that cookies/history for your browsing activity on your phone, tablet, laptop or PC are not stored. If so, you can choose to use private browsing.
