443 Calls to Crime-Stoppers in March

In March 2011, the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) police officials received 443 calls to the Crime-Stoppers hotline, out of which 126 were assessed as not serious.

In the aforementioned time period, citizens submitted 100 useful information on committed or planned criminal offences and their perpetrators, based on which the same number of reports was made.

The majority of information was related to criminal offences of corruption and abuse of official duty (18), illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs (14), black marketeering and smuggling (10).

Out of the total number of useful information, 82 of them, along with the reports, were forwarded for further processing to other competent police authorities in B&H, and 18 information were related to criminal offences from SIPA's competence.

Within the reporting period, 44 pieces of feedback were received from competent police authorities, based on which it was determined that three reports on committed criminal offences and perpetrators were submitted to competent Prosecutor's Offices, three reports were submitted to Prosecutor's Office for assessment and one violation report was submitted as well.

SIPA's police officials gave 217 recommendations to the citizens who called 080 020 505 – Crime-Stoppers hotline.