The Globe Police Department, AZ (26 sworn officers) was able to apprehend a wanted suspect due to multiple tips populating through their tip411 anonymous tip tool.
A vehicle theft led to a large seizure of hundreds of stolen items and the capture of one of the two suspects. The other suspect escaped from a lower-level window of the hotel room where the stolen items were kept.
Globe PD utilized tip411 to create an alert that was shared multiple times on Facebook and this generated a flood of tips received by the agency.
These tips directly led to the capture of the second suspect and demonstrate that tip411 increases safety, improves community engagement, and closes cases.
The Globe Police Department mobile app is available to download for free from the Google Play Store and the iTunes App Store. Citizens can also submit an anonymous text tip via their cell phone by texting the keyword “GPDTIPS” and their message/tip to 847411.
See the alert here.