Case studies

Amir Ramadin, Young person
13-year old Amir Ramadin lives in a housing estate in London. He most fears knife crime in and surrounding his school. One of his classmates brought a machete into school one day to use in a fight. Amir has been learning about Crimestoppers in his youth group.

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Bob Widdecombe, Crimestoppers Chairman, Devon and Cornwall
Local businessman and Chairman of the Plymouth Raiders, Bob Widdecombe, has been volunteering for Crimestoppers for 18-years. Touched by the impact local murders have had on communities around him, he is passionate about the difference that Crimestoppers can and does make to ordinary people. He has also been instrumental in reducing vandalism in high-crime schools by introducing basketball programmes.

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Carl Benjamin*, Young person
11-year old Carl Benjamin lives on one of the most deprived estates in the UK. He dreams of being a doctor when he's older, but is worried that all the trouble on his estate and in his school might stop him from reaching his dream. Since learning about Crimestoppers, he feels a bit safer with the knowledge that he can do something about crime.

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Chris Preddie, Crimestoppers Community Champion
20 year old Chris Preddie was involved in gangs, guns and drugs until the age of 16, when his brother was murdered in a drug-fuelled shoot-out. Turning his life around through grief and tragedy, Chris became a Youth Worker and the first Crimestoppers Community Champion.

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Darren Stevens, Volunteer, Gloucestershire Crimestoppers
Darren Stevens has been volunteering for his local Crimestoppers board for 11 years. With a background in marketing and PR, Darren is accustomed to seeing tangible results of the campaigns he does in his job. He enjoys applying his skills to Crimestoppers and playing a central role in increasing the number of criminals arrested in his area.

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Jordan Murphy*, Young Person
14-year old Jordan Murphy goes to a local youth group where he learns about rap and music. He finds it a positive way to express his anger. He's tired of all the gangs in his area causing trouble and making people scared. Now that he's learned about Crimestoppers, he thinks he might be able to help reduce crime on his local estates.

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Julie Facey, Crimestoppers Community Champion
Julie is a mother-of-two living in Peckham, South London. She started trying to make her community a better place due to her teenage son's experiences on the streets. She's fighting for a positive future for young people, the majority of whom are not involved in gangs and violence. She thinks that Crimestoppers is the ideal outlet for young people who have information about crime, but who fear reprisal.

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Kelly Field, Crimestoppers Chair, Cambridgeshire
Kelly Field volunteers for her local Crimestoppers Board. In her day job, she works for a housing company that operates in a number of challenging communities. Through her job, she has spread the word about Crimestoppers anonymous phone number. Since doing so, the number of phone calls to Crimestoppers has increased in the local area.

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Malik Garvey*, Young person
11-year old Malik Garvey is growing up surrounded by stabbings, shootings and gang warfare. Some of his friends' parents are involved in drugs and gangs. Malik is used to living this way and doesn't really fear crime because he sees it every day. But how long will it be until he's caught in the crossfire? In his youth group, Malik's been learning about how he could use Crimestoppers to reduce crime in his area.

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Mike Phillips*, Call handler for Crimestoppers
Mike Phillips is a Crimestoppers call handler. He has worked for Crimestoppers for 2.5 years, but is still amazed at the huge number of crimes he has seen solved as a result of information received on the anonymous Crimestoppers phone line. It took one of his callers 5 years to pluck up the courage to phone Crimestoppers about an attack that left someone brain-damaged and wheelchair-bound.

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Offender Management Team Leader, The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre
CEOP is instrumental in identifying and locating child sex offenders and protecting children from exploitation. Their partnership with Crimestoppers' Most Wanted website has led to 9 sex offenders who had gone missing from the Sex Offenders Register being caught. Authorities thought that one of these offenders, who'd had several cases of contact abuse with children, must be dead, as the trail on him had gone so cold. But thanks to Crimestoppers' Most Wanted, he was tracked down in France.

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Penny Middleton*, Crimestoppers' Information Co-ordinator, Lancashire Police
Penny Middleton works for the Lancashire Police as a Crimestoppers' Information Co-ordinator. This means that she receives anonymous information from Crimestoppers' call handlers and processes it, before handing it over to police officers to investigate. She's seen some huge crimes solved because of information from Crimestoppers, including a cocaine and heroin bust.

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Teresa Johnson*, Call handler for Crimestoppers
Teresa Johnson has been a call handler for Crimestoppers for 2 years. She's received calls about murders, drug dealers, brothels, child exploitation and abuse. Teresa has seen criminals who she's taken information about in the newspapers, having been arrested & brought to justice. So despite some difficult and often heart-breaking calls, she knows that Crimestoppers works.

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William Roache MBE, Coronation Street's Ken Barlow and Patron of Crimestoppers in the North West
Coronation Street star William Roache has been supporting Crimestoppers in the North West for almost ten years. William worries about the number of people who are in difficult situations because members of their family are involved in crime. That's why he's such a keen supporter of Crimestoppers – to make sure that these people know they can call the charity to pass on information about crime completely anonymously.

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