<h1><font color="#ff0000"><center>CRIMESTOPPERS</font></h1> <h2>- IN ACTION -</H2> <FONT SIZE=-1>Selected articles from Issue 17 (Autumn 95) </FONT> <TABLE border=1> <td><b><font color="#ff0000">Princess Royal Backs Drug Fight:</font></b> CRIMESTOPPERS has signed up to a major new high-profile drugs initiative launched by HM Customs and Excise to help combat Customs offences - in particular, drugs smuggling.</tr> </table> <TABLE border=1><td> The anti-drugs alliance was launched by HRH Princess Anne in October and has the support of both the business community and public organisations. <td><IMG SRC="image/princess.gif"><tr> </table> <TABLE border=1> <td><b><font color="#ff0000">Beer mats are a glass act for beating crime:</font></b> Surrey Crimestoppers and the Reigate and Banstead Community Safety Partnership produced 20,000 beer mats publicising crimestoppers<td> <IMG WIDTH=100 SRC="image/beermat.jpg"><tr> </table> <TABLE border=1> <td><b><font color="#ff0000">Good Samaritan :</font></b> Greater Manchester Crimestoppers received a call after two Oldham pensioners were conned out of large sums of money. The caller offered to reinburse 99-year-old Joe Horrocks and 84-year-old Emma Gosling, who had been duped out of the cash by conmen pretending to be workmen. Mr Horrocks lost £240 and Mrs Gosling had £90 stolen.<tr> </TABLE> <TABLE border=1> <td> <IMG WIDTH=100 SRC="image/bus.jpg"> <br>Leicestershire Chief Constable Keith Povey and Leciester's Lord Mayor Michael Johnson, flanked by Crimestoppers' Brian Wareham, left and Richard Duncan. <td><b><font color="#ff0000">Double-Decker drives the message Home :</font></b> When Leicestershire launched its Crimestoppers initiative, it did it with plenty of impact - a double-deckerbus, resplendant in the Crimestoppers livery and with the 0800 555 111 Freephone number emblazoned on its sides. The vehicle, sponsoed by East Midlands Airport, will serve on different routes throughout the county for a three year period. Since the campaign was launched in Leicestershire in september, 68 calls have already been received, 20 of which were drugs related. Six people have been arrested and charged with offences.<tr> </table> <table border=1> <td><b><font color="#ff0000">Partnership the key :</font></b>Crime control to be effective, requires a partnership between the public and the police. We need new ways of conveying the truth behind this cliche. The vast majority of crime is soluble. When no police expense is spared, when public revulsion is great, clearance rates are very high indeed. The clearance rate for homicide hovers around the 86 per cent. High rates come at a cost, the police expense in for example murder crimes cannot be matched against lesser crimes, but these rates should be used as a benchmark of what is possible. Crimestoppers helps extend the range of offences in which the public contributes to crime clearance and property recovery</font></b> </TABLE><p><br> </table> <p> <center> <h3>Thank you for stopping by.</h3> <h4>Guernsey Crime Stoppers.</h4><p> <hr><p> <h4>For further information on our services please mail, <A HREF="mailto:crimestop@post.guernsey.net"> <address>crimestop@post.guernsey.net</address></a></h4> </center> </BODY>