People providing information get a secret code number. Calls are not recorded and no one involved with Crime Stoppers knows the identity of the callers. Crime Stoppers does not subscribe to call display. A group of concerned citizens volunteers to serve on the Board of Directors to oversee the Toronto Crime Stoppers program. Board members meet regularly to manage and promote the program, raise funds and authorize reward payments.
Results speak for themselves.
The rewards paid by Toronto Crime Stoppers are not financed through tax dollars. All money required to support the programs must be raised through individual and corporate support. Crime Stoppers is a federally registered charity and donations are tax-deductible. The Crime of the Week Program Toronto Crime Stoppers interacts on a weekly basis with well over 40 media outlets to advertise the Crime of the Week to the public. By seeking the public's help to solve homicides, bank hold ups, hit and runs and the like, a televised re-enactment or surveillance video of the crime is shown on television.