Help your community stop crime

Help your community stop crime: Be a Community Ambassador with Crimestoppers.

We refreshed our Community Ambassador scheme last year, to get many more local organisations talking about Crimestoppers and how we help.
 
The initiative was created in 2013 by the late Colin Dobinson, from our Crimestoppers Essex Volunteer Committee, who received our Volunteer Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. It was such a good idea that our current volunteer community asked for updated resources so they could set up similar schemes.

Grassroots advocates 
 
Community Ambassadors are local organisations with knowledge of their communities. They represent a range of organisations, from public authorities and charities to other grass roots agencies. Their staff and volunteers are often in day-to-day contact with those who are involved with or affected by crime.
 
Many people know about crime, but perhaps fear or mistrust keeps them silent. 
 
A conversation with someone you trust can help build confidence for them to use and contact Crimestoppers when they need to: one anonymous phone call, one online form, can make all the difference. 

Community Ambassadors
 
-  Learn about Crimestoppers and all it offers
 - Provide ‘clients’ or partners with Crimestoppers information and materials
 - Have conversations and explain the benefits of our anonymous service
 - Give people the power to speak up. 
 
In doing so, this increases the quantity and quality of intelligence we pass on to police, and therefore contributes to community safety.
 
We provide information and resources to get started and keep on going. We have tools and resources to help you, from posters to videos, articles to leaflets. We can arrange a talk with your organisation about how Crimestoppers makes a difference to people and communities. 

 
Find out more about becoming a Crimestoppers Community Ambassador.