Comal County Crime Stoppers

When an informant calls Crime Stoppers, they are assigned a permanent code number, Then the telephone interviewers ask questions of the informant and fill-out a questionnaire with the informant of the criminal activity that they called to report. Since Crime Stoppers does not want to know the identity of the informant, the informant is instructed that it is their responsibility to call Crime Stoppers within addition information that may come up in the case and to call Crime Stoppers back within 3 to 4 weeks to check up on their case. After the questionnaire is complete, the coordinator reviews the information and decides which law enforcement agency to send the information to for follow-up investigation the information on the handwritten tip sheet questionnaire is sent to the investigating agency along with an investigator’s follow-up sheet. The investigators are asked to investigate the information and to send the investigator follow-up sheet back to Crime Stoppers within 7 to 10 days with details of their investigation or arrests and cases cleared. When the informants call Crime Stoppers to check the status of their cases, these sheets are hopefully back in their files, so that the informant can be told what has happened in their case. If their tip resulted in arrest(s) and /or cases cleared, the informant is instructed on how they will receive their rewards.

New Braunfels/Comal County Crime Stoppers.
Is a successful program. Since its inception, from June of 1986 to December 2006, tips to Crime Stoppers have helped area law enforcement agencies. There has been 322 suspects arrested, 329 persons cleared, 1136 Calls received, 558 persons paid rewards, $40,625 paid in rewards, $108,000 in stolen property recovered, and $22,550 in narcotics seized.