This program allows students to provide anonymous tips to the administration and local law enforcement about crimes. The students in Tarrant County will receive a monetary reward ranging from $10 – $1,000 if the tip proves instrumental in solving the crime. This Campus Crime Stoppers Program promotes school spirit, pride and responsibility and allows students to take action against victimization and crime in their school.
The Friends for Life Program began as a partnership with the Fort Worth ISD “It’s Not Okay” campaign during the 2010-2011 school year. The campaign encourages students to make healthy decisions and ask for help when they or their friends are in need. The tagline of this campaign is “It’s Okay to Help a Friend.” The Friends for Life Program focuses on behaviors and issues that can place the student and others at risk and serves as a resource for students who want to report fellow students who are victims of bullying, cyber bullying, sexting, dating or family violence, gang activity, sexual harassment, has suicidal tendencies, or is self-harming.
Gun & Gang Busters began as a program facilitated through Crime Stoppers of Tarrant County and the Northern District of Texas Project Safe Neighborhoods. In addition to the traditional Crime Stoppers money rewarded for a particular crime, Crime Stoppers of Tarrant County will add a bonus reward of up to $250 for tip information leading to an arrest(s) in gun and/or gang-related crimes in Tarrant County. The program aims to break down the code of silence that often exists among gangs and people who witness gang-related or gun-related crimes.
What kinds of tips are eligible for the bonus reward?Any tip involving the seizure of a gun, a crime in which a gun was used, or crimes that are gang-related or gang-involved are eligible for the bonus reward. Examples include, but are not limited to, aggravated offenses involving a gun, drug offenses involving a gang member(s), gang graffiti and criminal mischief, and coercing, soliciting, or inducing gang membership. Only tips that are received through the Crime Stoppers hotline, 817-469-TIPS (8477), and this website, www.469tips.com, are eligible for the reward.
How is the bonus reward determined and how is it funded?The Crime Stoppers Coordinator from each city and school is responsible for recommending the bonus reward when submitting the disposition on the Crime Stoppers tip. The Coordinator may recommend a bonus reward on a scale from $50 – $250 based on the severity of the crime and only after an arrest has been made as a result of the tip. Bonus rewards will be approved, along with the regular Crime Stoppers tips, at the monthly Crime Stoppers of Tarrant County Standing Committee Meetings. The bonus rewards are funded through Safe City Commission.
To provide information on a gun and/or gang crime, call 817-469-TIPS (8477) or click below to submit a tip.
The Crime Stoppers of Tarrant County College/University Program allows students and staff to provide anonymous tips on criminal activity to law enforcement and, in return, receive a monetary reward if the tip proves instrumental in making an arrest and/or solving the crime. The College/University Program takes Crime Stoppers tips on crimes, such as drugs, theft, vehicle burglaries, assaults, sexual assaults, vandalism, potential school shootings, and other crimes occurring on or off campus.
The program also takes Friends for Life tips, which focuses on behaviors and victimization issues that can place a student and others at risk and serves as a resource for students who want to report fellow students who are victims of bullying, cyber bullying, sexting, dating violence, family violence, gang activity, sexual harassment, has suicidal tendencies, or is self-harming.
Tips may be reported by phone, web, online chat, or through a smartphone app. The program is offered to colleges and universities within Tarrant County.
To report information on a crime:
Submit A Community TipGet the iTunes AppGet the Android App
To report a Friends for Life concern:
Submit A Campus TipGet the iTunes AppGet the Android App
Friends For Life
Crime Stoppers of Tarrant County serves the following Tarrant County municipalities: Arlington, Azle, Bedford, Benbrook, Blue Mound, Colleyville, Crowley, Dalworthington Gardens, Edgecliff Village, Euless, Everman, Forest Hill, Fort Worth, Grapevine, Haltom City, Haslet, Hurst, Keller, Kennedale, Lake Worth, Lakeside, Mansfield, North Richland Hills, Pantego, Pelican Bay, Richland Hills, River Oaks, Saginaw, Sansom Park, Southlake, Unincorporated Tarrant County, Watauga, Westlake, Westover Hills, Westworth Village and White Settlement.
Crime Stoppers tipsters are 100% anonymous. Often those who witness a crime, see or hear suspicious behavior or talk, or suspect someone of wrong-doing won’t reach out in fear “being involved” in a crime, of retaliation or having to appear in court. Crime Stoppers’ system is set up to be 100% anonymous and confidential, giving every citizen the safety and freedom to make their community a better place to live.
Adults: submit a community tip Students: submit a campus tip
iTunes App: from the App Store iTunes Student App: from the App Store
Android App: Google Play Store Android Student App: Google Play Store
Just as calling Crime Stoppers of Tarrant County is 100% anonymous, so is using the app. P3 Intel is the next generation multi-lingual tip management system allowing the public to submit secure and anonymous tips to Crime Stoppers programs and law enforcement with complete confidence. Ongoing two-way dialog and image and video upload are also possible with P3 Intel, facilitating a strong and effective Community Oriented Policing initiative. Download the P3 Tips mobile app today.
iTunes App: from the App Store Android App: Google Play Store
The Campus Crime Stoppers & Friends for Life of Tarrant County app is a school safety technology that allows students, parents, and community members to submit secure & anonymous safety concerns in Tarrant County schools. Secure intel, ongoing two-way dialog, and photo and video upload features sent to the Crime Stoppers of Tarrant County Call Center enable school personnel and law enforcement to receive the most accurate information in order to create effective interventions and prevent violence and tragedies. Download the CCS FFL mobile app today.