Awareness of Crimestoppers is growing with the past two months producing the highest call rates since the service was set up in New Zealand, chief executive Lou Gardiner said today.
Crimestoppers is an independent organisation that allowed people to phone in anonymously to provide information on crime.
In January, it
took 982 calls, an average of 32 a day. In February, it received 840, an average of 30 a day.
Mr Gardiner said those monthly figures were the two highest since Crimestoppers was launched in October 2009.
The target of 10,000 calls for this year, an increase off 30 per cent on the first 12 months of operation, was looking likely to be achieved, he said.
Drugs remained the crime that attracted calls and accounted for 60 per cent of information received.
The next biggest categories were dishonesty (12 per cent) and wanted persons (7 per cent).
- NZPA
