Engage your community & enhance public safety with tip411.
Mobilized Community Engagement. Anyone. Anytime. Anywhere.
tip411 provides a web-based toolset that allows your agency and the public to interact with each other like never before, across multiple channels, in real time, at an affordable cost.
tip411 provides:
- Custom, agency branded, free to download, iPhone and Android apps for law enforcement. Build trust and provide transparency to community members of all ages and ethnic backgrounds with tip411.
- 2-way anonymous tips submitted by the public through text via a custom keyword, over email, weblinks and through your social media sites.
- Community alerts can be sent to your custom apps, the public’s email and/or text and to your social media sites as well.
Testimonials
“We quantify our success with tip411 based solely on the fact that even one case solved because of a tip received via tip411 is a benefit since that case would not have been solved without it.”
PIO Alexandra OvingtonArlington Heights, IL Police Department 
Wylie, Texas Police received several anonymous tips via tip411 about someone who was planning to rob a bank in Wylie with enough information for the police to deem the threat credible and took action. “This made our banking community feel safe, but also developed a higher level of trust of our organization.”
Lt. TJ WaltersWylie, TX Police Department 
“In our first full year of use, we received a little over 200 tips. In 2018, we received over 4,200.”
Sgt. Kevin Fair Atlantic City, NJ Police Department 
“We just need the information. We don’t care where it comes from in most cases, but if we don’t get it, it makes it hard for us to protect your neighborhoods.”
Director Dan McGinnisBenton Harbor, MI Department of Public Safety 
“The biggest problem we saw was our citizens were wanting to help us and give us information but they did not want to be associated with the case and be looked at as a “narc” and, unfortunately with Facebook, as much as you make your profile private, there is always ways around it. There is no better time than now to gain the trust and respect from your community.”
Officer Caitlin HorneBismarck, ND Police Department 
“We believe the addition of this new tip411 app will allow us to have an even deeper crime-fighting partnership with our residents.”
Chief Marc CoulonAshland City, TN Police Department 
“This is a platform for us to have really on-going engagement with our community, Residents can also provide information to us anonymously through text messaging, through the app, or through the website.”
Director John SwensonLino Lakes, MN Public Safety Department 
“My hope is that the addition of this service will promote good communications and information sharing between us and the public, like any other kind of service industry, we need to adapt to technology in order to effectively serve the public.”
Chief Craig ShervenMcFarland, WI Police Department 
“tip411 is essential to community policing.”
Chief Anthony HollowaySt. Petersburg, FL Police Department 
"We have a 1-800 phone line but people don’t trust it like they do tip411.”
Police Specialist Britnee WhiteMandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation 
“No one wants to talk on the phone anymore, everyone is texting.”
Assistant Chief Jim SpeyerCheektowaga, NY Police Department 
“The fact that our officers have a direct line to contact the tip submitter without breaking the anonymous nature of the system allows for immediate updates while investigating tips.”
Captain Lee EllisSouth Carolina Department of Natural Resources 
“We can send alerts to the entire city. Our captains can send out alerts to their areas and I can respond to you but I have no idea who you are nor can I ever find out who you are because that information gets scrubbed before it ever gets to us.”
Assistant Chief Gail StrussAllentown, PA Police Department 
“What’s notable is the everyday success we’re having with the system that we hadn’t seen before. We’re getting more tips, closing more cases, and being able to continue anonymous tip conversations with reporting party rather than just getting a voicemail with a piece of information that isn’t enough to help us build a case off of.”
Capt. Dan BroganOnondaga County, NY Sheriff’s Office 
“We aren’t about reinventing the wheel. Schools and police in this area talk and collaborate regularly, and tip411 has everything we wanted; the ability for students to send tips anonymously and also allowing our officers to communicate directly with students.”
Director of Safety Greg HillMcKinney, TX ISD 
“I can see why somebody wouldn’t want to call 911 on their neighbors and give a name and address and all that stuff. For those fearing repercussions from calling the police tip411 can provide peace of mind. They don’t have to live in fear that their neighbor’s going to find out they used tip411.”
Captain Ryan GeorgeFridley, MN Police Department 
"Communication is vital to our residents…and tip411 provides a great tool for our Police Department to communicate with residents and ask for their assistance.“
City Manager Pete LandrumBeavercreek, OH 
“A thousand percent improvement over the system we did have… We probably get about a tip a day and just had someone send us video of an armed robbery that helped us solve it.”
Captain Marcy KuehnPort Huron, MI Police Department 
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IN THE NEWS
tip411’s Value Increases as Residents Need to Communicate Safely with Law Enforcement During COVID-19
“This actually makes social distancing, and all the things the governor and the president have been talking about for the last several months… it makes tip411 more viable for the citizenry.” – Sgt. Earl Lorence, Director of the Rockland Crime Analysis Center.