SIPA

In October, 2011, the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) police officials received 427 calls to the Crime-Stoppers hotline and Crime-Stoppers web site, out of which 145 were assessed as not serious.
In the aforementioned time period, citizens submitted 107 useful information on committed or planned criminal offences and their perpetrators, based on which the same number of reports was made, which is an increase of 30,50% in comparison with the September 82 useful information.
The majority of information was related to criminal offences of corruption and abuse of official duty (25), illicit trade in narcotics (13) and illicit possession and trafficking in weapons (5).
Out of the total number of useful information, 84 of them, along with the reports, were forwarded to competent B&H police authorities for further processing, and 23 information were related to criminal offences from SIPA competence.
Within the reporting period, 49 feedback information were received from competent police authorities, based on which it was determined that 3 reports on committed criminal offence and perpetrators were submitted to competent Prosecutor’s Offices, and 3 reports were submitted for assessment.

SIPA’s police officials gave 175 recommendations to the citizens who contacted anonymous and free of charge 080 020 505 – Crime-Stoppers hotline or web site www.krimolovci.ba.