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09-30-10 Boise area Crime Stoppers wins International Award!

Arrests thanks to citizen tips to Crime Stoppers increased from 43 in 2008 to 73 in 2009! Thanks to everyone for your continued support of our Boise area Crime Stoppers!

    Boise, Sept. 30, 2010 - The Boise area Crime Stoppers program has earned an international award for a big increase in the number of arrests connected to citizens tips last year! 

    The Crime Stoppers International Conference was held recently in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Nearly 300 people from all around the World attended the conference in beautiful Halifax. The conference gave delegates a chance to network and share ideas for their Crime Stoppers programs world-wide.

    During the conference, Jan Van Houten, Boise PD’s Crime Stoppers program coordinator was awarded the 2010 Productivity Award given for the greatest increase in arrests for our population category. Van Houten accepted the award on behalf of the Boise Area Crime Stoppers Board of Directors and the citizens of the Treasure Valley. 

    Boise area Crime Stoppers related arrests increased from 43 in 2008 to 73 in 2009! Citizen calls to Boise Crime Stoppers also increased over the same time from 2,866 calls to 4043 calls! And reward money approved by Crime Stoppers to citizens whose information results in an arrest increased from $2,450 in 2008 to $4,450 in `09, totaling $77,115 in Crime Stoppers reward money since the program began in 1981!

    As you know, our local Crime Stoppers program is very involved with the community in helping solve crimes. It`s because the community, the media and law enforcement cooperate on sighting crime that Boise`s Crime Stoppers program continues to grow. Thanks to everyone for your continued support of Crime Stoppers!

Both Granbury middle schools and the new 9th grade campus are joining Granbury High School in forming campus-based Crime Stoppers chapters. Representatives from the campuses also have joined the board of the umbrella “adult” group, Hood County Crime Stoppers.

As with all Crime Stoppers chapters, students will be able to report crime tips in anonymity and receive monetary rewards through a system that protects their identity.

The three new Campus Crime Stoppers will be guided and supported by the high school group, which was formed last year with members of the Student Council. In October 2006, four student members traveled to Odessa, Texas with four adult chaperones, including GHS Assistant Principal William Hernandez and Lt. Billy Henderson of the Hood County Sheriff’s Office, for a statewide symposium on Campus Crime Stoppers.

“By attending the annual Conference, the students are able to network with other students and gain valuable information,” Lt. Billy Henderson says.

At its January board meeting, Hood County Crime Stoppers voted to give each campus $500 to jump-start their reward funds. Board member Kathy Swindle agreed to serve as a coordinator for the satellite groups, providing student guidance and spearheading fundraising efforts and media promotion. Plans already are underway for a major fundraising initiative in October to fund Campus Crime Stoppers for the 2007-2008 academic year.

“The Driftwood Theatre, which is represented on the adult board of Crime Stoppers, has agreed to help us sponsor ‘Fright Night’ events for each campus with scary movies in the weeks before Halloween,” Ms. Swindle says. “The students will love it, they’ll raise money for their school’s Crime Stoppers chapter, and hopefully the Driftwood will make a little money.”

If successful, Fright Night could become a yearly fundraising event, Ms. Swindle says – not to mention a great way to publicize Campus Crime Stoppers and rally support in the community.

“At a time when crime and drugs are prevalent even among middle-school students,” she says, “parents likely will be glad to know that such a program is in place at their child’s school.”