www.peicrimestoppers.com 7 Remember: We want your information, not your name! I am the recently appointed Provincial Coordinator for PEI Crime Stoppers and work with a dedicated volunteer Board of Directors, who are responsible for the our organization. It is their commitment to this organization, which makes it work so well. I would like to thank Scott Lundrigan, the former Coordinator, for his assistance when I began the role and for being available for questions. First, I would like to extend my thanks for the support, assistance and encouragement of the media, our community, and the provincial and municipal governments on PEI along with our law enforcement partners. In addition, our sponsors the Summerside Boys and Girls Club, Maritime Electric, ADL Limited, P.E.I. Mutual Life, Syntrak Printing and Unsolved Crime Publications have been a tremendous assistance to us in providing financial support to our operation. Once again, February 2019 saw PEI Crime Stoppers partner with the English and French Language Schools Boards along with sponsors ADL, the Charlottetown Islanders Hockey Club and Summerside Boys and Girls Club to hold a contest to design a logo for our 2020 Pink Shirt Day aimed at raising awareness of bullying and its negative effects. January through March in support of Pink Shirt Day, we together with the Charlottetown Islanders’ hockey club players, visited a number of schools in the English and French language School Board to present an anti-bullying message to the students. These visits were well received by the students and enjoyed by the players. PEI Crime Stoppers were pleased to take part in the 2019 PEI Home Show from March 8th to 10th. We had many visitors at our booth, which gave us the opportunity to explain who we were, how our program works and outline some of our successes. Big thanks to our volunteers who staffed the booth. Throughout the year, we continued our community service work on scam awareness. Retired RCMP Chief Superintendent Randy Robar and I delivered the Common Signs of Scams presentation as a public service to Islanders. A local summer student was hired to increase our profile in PEI. He attended a number of summertime parades and community events and visited 1,556 business locations leaving promotional stickers on over 1,300 businesses to raise public awareness of Crime Stoppers. The number of new tips received from January 1 to December 31, 2019 was 514 tips for a total of 10,572 since PEI Crime Stoppers was incorporated in 1989. Thank you to individuals, communities, local businesses, provincial government and law enforcement agencies for your continued financial support of our operation. A special thank you to those individuals who have reached out to us with your tips. The tips do make a difference in helping us assist local law enforcement agencies to make our Island a safer place to live and do business. We look forward to working and growing with you to make 2020 another successful year. Thank you for your support. Don Rodd Provincial Coordinator PEI Crime Stoppers President’s Message It is my profound honour and privilege to extend my sincerest thanks to our dedicated Board of volunteers past and present and our Coordinator, Don Rodd for the many hours of volunteer time and support of our PEI Crime Stoppers program. They champion the goal of ensuring that PEI Crime Stoppers continues to significantly contribute to public safety in our province. Please take the time to go through our Awareness Guide to see some of our many activities and initiatives. We ask you to take the time to review the unsolved crimes, missing person notices, and messages from our Island police services to help us work for a safer PEI. As we bank, shop, and socialize online, criminals have exploited the vulnerabilities of our computer systems and our own natural human emotions. Therefore, we continue to move forward with our community work on scam-awareness. To date, we have delivered over 11 presentations on the Common Signs of Scams presentation to Island audiences as a public service. Through these challenging times and where possible, we continue our community service through lectures, Tips program, Twitter, Facebook and our website, anti-bullying work, Police Officer of the Year recognition, close cooperation with PEI police services, and other public safety initiatives. One of these successful initiatives was our sticker campaign to make our contact information more readily available to PEI citizens was a great success. Thanks to our summer student who approached hundreds of Island business to display our contact information at their entrances. Our summer student has also distributed our PEI Crime Stoppers anti-bullying posters to all Island schools. This successful initiative was to ensure Islanders have ready access to our three completely anonymous Crime Stoppers contact methods: * Mobile App for Androids and IPhone available at www.peicrimestoppers.com * Telephone 1-800-222-TIPS * Our online form at www.peicrimestoppers.com Why do we do all that we do? This is asked by many who visit our many yearly events. It is quite simple to answer: Since Crime Stoppers started on PEI, we have received nearly 10,557 tips, leading to over 3.2 million dollars in seized drugs and recovered property. We are pleased to offer this guide as part of this public safety effort and continue to work actively to serve PEI public safety. Yours very truly, Mark Pharand President PEI Crime Stoppers Coordinator’s Message Report anonymously Online or by mobile browser at peicrimestoppers.com
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