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Crime Stoppers WA has launched this new website to give people in Western Australia improved information and a more user-friendly online crime report form. All the pages in this website are responsive, which means you can easily read the content on your tablet or mobile phone, and you can also report criminal…

A record number of Western Australians are using Crime Stoppers to report crime Helping to combat crime is the work of Crime Stoppers. We empower everyone to play their part by providing a service that enables them to prevent and anonymously report suspicious and criminal behaviour. In October 2015 a record number…

The April newsletter from Crime Stoppers WA celebrates 20 years of serving Western Australia, outlines the new services for 2015 and explores recently completed research outcomes related to the value of Crime Stoppers to the community. Read our latest newsletter.

Crime Stoppers WA celebrated its 20th anniversary at a special cocktail function on 16 February 2015. The function also marked National Crime Stoppers Day as well as the launch of Crime Stoppers Week in Western Australia. VIPs included Hon. Liz Behjat (representing the Minister for Police), WA Police Commissioner Karl O’Callaghan and…

There’s no doubt that Crime Stoppers provides value for money and a recent research report confirmed just that. The national study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) consultants in March 2015 compared the economic benefit of Crime Stoppers with the running costs, finding that across Australia Crime Stoppers delivers a wide range of benefits for the…

Would you leave tens of thousands of dollars on your bedside table? For most of us the answer is ‘of course not’ but if you drop your car keys somewhere obvious that’s precisely what you are doing. With the wide use of car immobilising technology in Western Australia, your car keys are…

The manufacture of illicit drugs poses more than a risk to drug users – it creates danger for anyone who lives near the growing number of clandestine laboratories in Western Australia. WA Police found 84 so-called ‘clan labs’ last year and about 10% of the discoveries are due to a disaster, usually…

Of all the crimes against property committed each day in Western Australia, few shake the victim’s confidence as much as having their home robbed. WA home burglary rates haven’t changed much in recent years, with an average of one in 22 homes actually burgled and one in 28 experiencing an attempted burglary….

When a petrol station attendant was fatally shot in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1976, detectives were stumped. There was little information and no obvious suspect. So police took what was then a novel approach, re-enacting the shooting on television and offering a $1,000 reward. Within three days a caller reported that they’d…