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In Australia, someone contacts Crime Stoppers every 2 minutes to report information relating to a crime or suspicious activity.
In 2025, Crime Stoppers received 402,049 contacts across Australia. Nearly half of these became information reports filed with police agencies.
Tips provided to Crime Stoppers nationally led to 4,330 arrests and 13,256 charges between 1 January and 31 December 2025, demonstrating the significant role community information plays in disrupting crime.
The economic value of Crime Stoppers to Australia is estimated as $170m, with an additional $66m in added value from drugs being seized, property returned, and crimes being prevented.
Every dollar invested in Crime Stoppers delivers $11.15 in return value to the community.
Crime Stoppers in the ACT has the highest call rate per capita in Australia.
The most common criminal activities that resulted in arrests from Crime Stoppers intelligence include: illegal drugs, break and entering/receiving, stealing, assault, sex offences, motor vehicle, armed robbery, domestic violence, homicide and other activities.
We engage local community members and organisations, media and police to prevent and solve crimes in Canberra and surrounding regions (Queanbeyan and Yass). For more information on our activities, visit our Campaigns page.
