 Send a crime tip with an iPhone app or text
Do you want to help the Hennepin
County Sheriff’s Office fight crime?
Now, there’s an “app” for that!
The Hennepin County
Sheriff Rich Stanek announced that the Sheriff’s Office has launched an app for
the iPhone and for android phones. The free apps allow citizens to send crime
tips anonymously to the Sheriff’s Office.
“When
citizens get involved and provide crime tips, it helps keep their communities safer,”
said Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek, “Now the new phone apps make
reporting tips even more convenient.”
Community members with iPhones
are encouraged to install the app by visiting the Apple App Store and searching
for “HCSOTip.” For android phones, go to
Google Play and search HCSOTip.
(*Please note that for both apps,
the search term is HCSOTip – which is one word without a space. Other search
terms are “Hennepin” or “Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office.”)
In addition, the Sheriff’s Office
announced two other new ways to send anonymous tips.
Tips can be sent through texting
on cellular phones
by texting 847-411 and then entering “HCSOtip” as the keyword before entering
their tip. Standard text rates apply.
Tips can be sent by logging onto
the Sheriff’s Office website and completing an online form. There is an icon on the homepage
at www.hennepinsheriff.org
All
three methods – the phone apps, texting, and the online form – are anonymous
and the tips are sent directly to the Sheriff’s Office.
It’s
important to remember that the new tip services are NOT a substitute for
calling 911. People who need a squad car
or other emergency responders should call 911.
Helpful
tips include information about drug activity, suspicious activity, and cold
cases. The Sheriff’s Office has a long history of receiving tips from residents. For example, tipsters have helped the
Sheriff’s Office make arrests of violent suspects featured on the Hennepin
County Most Wanted List.
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