Crime Stoppers conference in October

The conference will be held from October 2 to 5 at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre, St Ann’s.

In a press release issued yesterday, Crime Stoppers said the theme for this year’s conference, now in its 37th year, is Anonymous Reporting in the Digital Age.

Crime Stoppers said the conference will bring together members of global Crime Stoppers programs from 28 countries, organisations and persons who are involved in crime prevention, media professionals engaged with local Crime Stoppers programs, law enforcement agencies and their representatives.

“Crime Stoppers recognises that someone other than criminals may have information about crime, and was developed to combat the public’s fear of reprisals, public apathy, and a reluctance to get involved. It is a mechanism, which is separate from the emergency police telephone number or other standard methods of contacting police, which allows a member of the community to provide information about criminal activity anonymously,” the organisation said. Crime Stoppers says its programmes have been implemented in more than 1,200 communities around the world.

Silvino Schlickmann, INTERPOL’s head of Cybercrime Research will be a guest speaker at the conference.

Schlickmann is a computer science forensic expert from the Brazilian Federal Police and has nine years experience as head of forensic laboratories.