Stop sending tips through Facebook, says Crime Stoppers

As Crime Stoppers adapts to new ways to submit tips, there's one way the organization doesn't want to be contactedthrough Facebook.

Phil Pitts, the coordinator and manager at P.E.I. Crime Stoppers, said that the organization receives several tips each month from people on the social media platform. But their attempts to reach out through their accountsdefeat an important part of theservice.

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"Our program is based on anonymity so when we receive them via Facebook messenger we just delete them," he said.

Pitts said prospective tipsters should submit information about crimes through the Crime Stoppers website, over the phone or throughtext messaging.

He said that Crime Stoppers is adapting to new forms of communication, but that the organization's purpose can't be compromised.

"We want to provide a program where they can submit a tip without fear of reprisals or anything like that," he said.

"So the anonymity part is key to the program."

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