This site will provide you with information on the role of the Nanaimo and District Crime Stoppers program, which also covers the communities of Ladysmith and Gabriola Island.

Crime Stoppers is a cooperative program involving the community, media and police.  Crime Stoppers is designed to involve the public in fighting crime by assisting the police with information to solve crimes.  Everyone benefits …. except the criminal!

Crime Stoppers provides citizens with an anonymous way to provide Law Enforcement with information about unsolved crimes without becoming directly involved.  Contact Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) - anywhere in Canada.  Crime Stoppers does not subscribe to call display/ call tracing and you will never be asked to reveal your name.  Crime Stoppers provides tipsters with a confidential code number that is used for all future communications, when you call back for updates

Crime Stoppers provides cash rewards of up to $2,000 for information that leads to an arrest, the recovery of stolen property, or the seizure of illegal drugs.  You will not have to go to court or testify.

Crime Stoppers is administered by a community volunteer board and is a registered charity supported through donations of money, goods, and/or services.  The program does not receive any direct Government Funding, and therefore the program relies heavily on community support.  Donations are used to cover the cost of paying tipsters, training, administration and on-going promotion of the program.

As of April 2007 and since the start of the program in March 1990, the Nanaimo and District Crime Stoppers program has received over 3602 tips which resulted in 396 arrests, the recovery of over $1,078,969 in stolen property and the removal of more than $8,915,312 in drugs from our City streets.  We have also authorized the payment of $74,050 in tip rewards.

If you have any questions or wish to become involved with the local program, you can either write us a letter at the address below, or contact Community Policing at (250) 755-3208 and ask to speak to the Crime Stoppers Coordinator.

All donations made to the Nanaimo and District Crime Stoppers program are tax deductible and a tax receipt will be provided.  Donations may be either:

a)  mailed to Nanaimo & District Crime Stoppers, Box 4613, Nanaimo, B.C.  V9R 5E8 or

b)  dropped off at the Crime Prevention Office, 580 Fitzwilliam Street, Nanaimo, B.C.

Please print the donation form and enclose it with your donation.  Charity number: 14047 6124 RR001