crime stoppers victoria 2014-15 annual report

If you see something, say something.

2014-2015

ANNUAL REPORT

Level 18, 412 St. Kilda Road, Melbourne VIC 3004P: 1800 333 000E: [email protected]

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Crime Stoppers Victoria Annual Report 2014-2015

OUR VISION

OUR VISION IS TO MAKE VICTORIA SAFER AND MORE SECURE AND TO REDUCE THE LEVEL OF CRIME IN THE COMMUNITY.

OUR PURPOSE

OUR PURPOSE IS TO ENGAGE WITH, AND BUILD TRUST IN, THE COMMUNITY SO THAT ALL VICTORIANS CAN CONFIDENTLY CONTACT CRIME STOPPERS WITH INFORMATION ABOUT CRIMINAL ACTIVITY THAT WILL HELP MAKE THEIR COMMUNITY SAFER AND MORE SECURE.

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Since taking our first call in 1987, Crime Stoppers Victoria has provided a trusted service to collect information from the public to help Victoria Police: Lay more than

69,000 charges

CONTENTSChair Report 04

CEO Report 05

What We Did 06

Results 07

Campaigns 09

Community 14

Board of Directors 16

Our Supporters 18

Financial Report 19

CRIME STOPPERS VICTORIA IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT COMMUNITY ORGANISATION WORKING TO KEEP OUR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES SAFE. Crime Stoppers Victoria is an independent community organisation and a registered Australian charity with Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) Status and Tax Concession Charity (TCC) Endorsement.

Crime Stoppers Victoria works closely with Victoria Police, the State Government, the Federal Government, and other not-for-profit organisations to develop and deliver crime detection, prevention and education campaigns throughout Victoria.

We work with our valued media partners and our corporate and philanthropic supporters to deliver our suite of community programs. We encourage Victorians to report any information they may have about crime to help keep their families and communities safe.

If you see something, if you know something… say something.

1800 333 000 www.crimestoppersvic.com.au

Make more than 17,000 arrests

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Sal Perna Chairman

Samantha Hunter Chief Executive Officer

CHAIR REPORT

Welcome to our 2014-15 Crime Stoppers Victoria Annual Report.

In August we announced the annual results of our 28th year of operations, results that clearly show what an extraordinary year we’ve had. This year we have achieved the highest arrest rates in our history. Thanks to the information provided by the community, over 1400 arrests were made between July 2014 and July 2015, an increase of 175 arrests from last year.

Take a moment to take that in. This means that public information received by Crime Stoppers has resulted in an average of four arrests every single day.

And this is just one statistic in isolation; it doesn’t take into account the 173 calls/contacts received on average each day or the thousands of charges laid by police or drugs seized or money and property recovered.

Any way you look at it, the Crime Stoppers program has been a success in making Victoria a safer place to live.

Of course, this doesn’t happen by chance. Behind these results are a group of hard-working, committed and dedicated people who believe in what they do. To my energetic and enthusiastic Board, our CEO, the staff of Crime Stoppers Victoria, the Crime Stoppers Unit of Victoria Police, and especially to our call centre staff, my thanks go out to each of you.

To Victoria Police and our other key stakeholders, our sponsors and supporters, and the wide network of media agencies, thank you for your ongoing contributions.

Finally, to the Victorian community who trust us to handle their information, thank you for making this great State a better place to live.

Sal Perna Chairman

Crime Stoppers Victoria

28 YEARS OF

OPERATION Over 1,400 arrests were made between July 2014

and July 2015.

We average 173 calls and contacts

each day.

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S REPORT

During the past year, we have delivered a packed program of education and awareness campaigns around a range of crime and safety issues, to help make Victoria a safer place for everyone.

We have visited regional communities across the state to encourage people to dob in a dealer and disrupt the supply and manufacture of crystal methylamphetamine and illicit drugs across regional Victoria. This state-wide campaign, developed out of a local initiative developed with Victoria Police Senior Sergeant Shane Keogh in Warrnambool, has driven a significant increase in drug reporting, arrests and seizures across our regional communities.

We have continued to deliver our annual Bushfire Arson and Reckless Fires Campaign to help stamp out fires in regional and urban-fringe communities around the state. We have worked with a range of agencies including Victoria Police, Emergency Management Victoria, CFA, MFB, SES and the Department of Land, Water and Planning to communicate the fire awareness message.

Crucially, we have continued to engage the National Centre for Research in Bushfire Arson, exploring how community attitudes toward reporting bushfire arson to Crime Stoppers in Victoria have changed over the past six years. This important research will help shape our future campaigns and community education initiatives.

We have worked with young people in our community, from local school students to international university students visiting our city from abroad. We have raised awareness about personal safety issues and the importance of keeping an eye out for your mates, and have provided information on how to report crime and what type of behaviour to look out for. We have also worked with the TAC to tackle hoon and dangerous driving behaviour, and make the roads safer for all Victorians.

With the support of our valued multilingual media partners, we have engaged with multicultural communities across Victoria on a range of crime prevention issues. We have also been able to translate our crime reporting messages into a range of languages to ensure our confidential reporting service is accessible to all member of the Victorian community.

Family violence is a significant issue affecting all Victorians.

The seriousness of family violence was formally recognised in February 2015 with the announcement of a Royal Commission into Family Violence. As a community crime detection and prevention organisation, Crime Stoppers Victoria was honoured to have the opportunity to put forward our learnings and experiences around bystanders and crime reporting, and make a formal contribution to this important public inquiry.

Our digital services have continued to go from strength to strength. We are proud to offer a world-class online confidential reporting system, along with an innovative crime reporting application for smart phone devices, and a dynamic social media portfolio to really connect and engage with the community across a broad range of digital platforms.

Crime Stoppers Victoria has grown considerably over the past year, with five new faces joining the CSV team and a host of new staff coming on board in the call centre to receive information reports from the community.

Our efforts to keep Victoria safe continue to grow with more than 63,354 contacts to our call centre and record arrest rates recorded over the past year.

Our excellent outcomes are a reflection of the incredible support we receive from our sponsors and supporters, including Victoria Police, the State Government, Motorola Solutions and our media partners, and the trust placed in us by the community.

I look forward to working with the Crime Stoppers Board and expanded team, our valued sponsors and supporters, and the people of Victoria to build a safer Victoria over the coming twelve months.

Samantha Hunter Chief Executive Officer

Crime Stoppers Victoria

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WHAT WE DID IN 2O14-2O15

We worked with the community and police to help keep Victoria safe

• We collected confidential information from the public to help solve crime

• We received 63,354 contacts through our telephone, web and smart phone portals

• We helped Victoria Police lay 4,447 charges and make 1,455 arrests

We helped raise community awareness around crime and safety issues

• Bushfire Arson and Reckless Fires

• Dob in a Dealer

• Graffiti

• International student safety

• Youth safety and crime reporting

• Hoon and dangerous driving

• Travelling Conmen

We contributed to public discussion around

• Family violence

• Public safety

• Crime reporting

We hit the ground to engage with Victorians

• At community events and meetings

• Through our travelling campaign roadshows

• And by teaming up with other community organisations and agencies

We increased our digital footprint • We tweeted more often

• Uploaded more video content than ever before

• And connected with other like-minded organisations through Linked In

Helped Victoria Police lay 4,447 charges

and made 1,455 arrests

Received 63,354 contacts through our phone, web and

smart phone portals.

In 2014-2015 Crime Stoppers Victoria

We took the Crime Stoppers message to Twitter for the first time, achieving 887,000 impressions in the first ten months.

Our crime education and detection videos were viewed a total of 97,926 times, with an average of 8,161 views each month.

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In 2014-2015, our annual bushfire arson and reckless fires roadshow visited 16 regional and urban fringe communities between December and March to help raise awareness around reckless and deliberate fires, and equip residents with the appropriate knowledge and call to action to help prevent and report dangerous fire behaviour.

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WE WORKED WITH THE COMMUNITY AND POLICE TO HELP KEEP VICTORIA SAFE

Crime Stoppers Victoria worked closely with Victoria Police to collect high volumes of community reports and deliver record breaking results across the 2014-2015 financial year.

With the help of the community, we received 63,354 information contacts through our telephone, website and smart phone app reporting portals – an increase of 2388 contacts on the previous 12 month period. These contacts generated 31,818 intelligence reports.

Reports passed on to investigators helped Victoria Police lay 4,447 charges and make 1,455 arrests throughout the year – the highest arrest rate in our 28 year history, and a significant 17.6 per cent increase on the previous year.

Public information helped solve one murder investigation, 21 sexual assaults, 28 armed robberies, 42 serious assaults, six robberies, eight clandestine drug laboratories, 117 hydroponic grow houses and three arson offences.

The information also helped Victoria Police to recover of $14,817,261 in drugs, property and cash.

• Total number of arrests 1,455

• Total number of calls and contacts to the call centre 63,354

• Total number of intel and action reports 31,818

• Charges laid 4,447

• Value of drugs seized $13,387,142

• Value of property seized $909,130

• Cash seized $520,989

one murder investigation

28 armed robberies

117 hydroponic grow houses

42 serious assaults

In 2014-2015 public information helped solve

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Information received by Crime Stoppers Victoria helped Victoria Police solve thousands of crimes over the past twelve months. For example:

Crime Stoppers received information regarding a residential premises in regional Victoria being used to grow cannabis. Police subsequently executed a search warrant locating a sophisticated hydroponics operation and seizing cannabis, hashish and cash valued at more than $100,000.00

Crime Stoppers Victoria places a large focus on working with the community to raise awareness around bushfire arson and reckless fires each year. Crime Stoppers received information that an offender had deliberately set fire to a rented residential premises in the eastern suburbs. After further inquiries by Victoria Police, the male was arrested and charged.

Calls to Crime Stoppers provided police with information about a middle-aged male taking photos (up skirting) of a young female in a suburban supermarket. Through their enquiries, police identified the male was who then arrested and charged.

A member of the community provided Crime Stoppers with information regarding suspicious activity at a residential premises in the eastern suburbs. Police commenced an operation and subsequently executed a search warrant locating in excess of $320,000 worth of cannabis (grow house).

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BUSHFIRE ARSON

The Black Saturday Bushfires in 2009 brought the issue of deliberately and recklessly lit fires into public focus. Each summer, since the tragedy, Crime Stoppers has worked with emergency service agencies to deliver an annual community education and awareness campaign focusing on bushfire arson and reckless fire behaviour.

In 2014-2015, our annual campaign roadshow visited 16 regional and urban fringe communities between December and March to help raise awareness around reckless and deliberate fires, and equip residents with the appropriate knowledge and call to action to help prevent and report dangerous fire behaviour.

We held a Bushfire Arson Launch at Warrandyte Fire Station on 5th February to raise awareness around the issue of bushfire arson ahead of a predicted high fire danger period.

We helped stamp out Bushfire Arson and Reckless Fires

The launch was attended by the Minister Emergency Services, the Hon Jane Garrett MP, Emergency Management Commissioner Craig Lapsley, and representatives from fire and emergency service agencies.

We engaged Victorians with the bushfire arson message through widespread television, radio and outdoor community service campaigns, and made information available in tourist information centres and regional centres across the state.

Crime Stoppers Victoria recorded 111 information reports for investigation by Victoria Police over the course of the campaign, and helped Victoria Police make one arrest. Since its inception five years ago, the campaign has seen an increase of nearly 300 per cent in community reports providing bushfire arson and reckless fire information.

Visited 16 Victorian regional and urban fringe communities

Provided 111 information reports about fire and arson

Helped Victoria Police make 1 arrest

In 2014-2015, our annual Bushfire Arson and Reckless Fires Roadshow

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DOB IN A DEALER

Crystal methylamphetamine (‘ice’) is an ongoing concern for communities across Victoria. Crime Stoppers Victoria has taken a clear stand against ice over the past 12 months, taking our Dob in a Dealer Program to 14 different regional communities to encourage residents to dob in a dealer.

Developed from an idea put forward by Victoria Police Senior Sergeant Shane Keogh, the program harnesses the power of confidential community information to help disrupt the manufacture and supply of crystal methylamphetamine and other illicit drugs in our communities.

The program was first trialled in Warrnambool in 2013. On the back of this successful trial, the program was formalised and received funding support from the Victorian State Government’s Community Crime Prevention Program.

Over the past twelve months, the program has been activated in Bendigo, Shepparton, Wodonga, Moe, Warrnambool, Geelong, Ballarat, Echuca, Horsham, Portland, Hamilton, Swan Hill, Mildura and Ararat.

We encouraged Victorians to ‘Dob in a Dealer’

Crime Stoppers Victoria has been thrilled with the response from residents in these towns, with our call centre receiving an average 196% increase in related information reports during the campaign period.

“Ice is a complex community health, safety and crime issue that requires a multi-faceted response. The Dob in a Dealer Program is just one part of the broader community response that is needed to tackle ice. Crime Stoppers Victoria is committed to working with other agencies and organisations to address this significant issue to help keep Victorians safe and well.’

Samantha Hunter, CEO

Launched Dob in a Dealer in 13 regional communities

Recorded a 196% increase in reports across the Dob in a Dealer program

Helped seize more than $13 million in drugs

In 2014-2015, Crime Stoppers Victoria

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OPERATION ROAM

We supported Operation ROAM to locate fugitives across Australia

Crime isn’t confined by geography, and a national approach is sometimes required to flush out wanted criminals and help solve crimes. Crime Stoppers Victoria was proud to take part in the 2014 Crime Stoppers Australia Operation ROAM, a two-week national campaign run each year to track down wanted persons who have committed serious offences who are suspected of being located in other states around the country.

The 2014 campaign appealed to the Australian community to keep a close eye out for 20 ROAM Offenders, including criminals wanted for murder, attempted murder, sexual assault, drug trafficking, robberies and deception. Thanks to information provided by the Australian community, three arrests were actioned in the first 48 hours of the campaign.

Over the course of the 2014 campaign, Crime Stoppers Victoria activities generated more than 9,780 related website hits, more than 8,650 Twitter impressions, and extensive media coverage across the state.

“The community plays a vital role in helping solve crime, and Crime Stoppers is the trusted community conduit for providing confidential information” Crime Stoppers CEO Samantha Hunter.

We called on residents to report vandalism in their neighbourhoods

Graffiti vandalism is a daily headache across Melbourne. Graffiti vandalism presents an ongoing law enforcement issue for Victoria Police and a frustrating resource and removal issue for local councils across the metro area. With support from the Department of Justice, our high visibility Dob in a Tagger campaign went online in metro areas in the second half of 2014 to encourage members of the public to provide information about graffiti vandalism in their local neighbourhoods. We literally took our anti-graffiti message to the people and to the streets, with a mix of footpath, public transport, university, online and cinema messaging. Crime Stoppers received 252 community contacts and information reports about graffiti vandalism during the campaign.

We encouraged young people to stand up and say something

We continued to roll out our Say Something campaign, designed to encourage young people who witness crimes and acts of violence to look out for their friends and say something.

Following on from the success of our Jimmy campaign in 2012 and our Rachel campaign in 2013, we launched a new interactive website www.saysomething.org.au dedicated to providing young people with the requisite information and opportunity to speak up and make the community safer for their friends and families.

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COMMUNITY SAFETY

We worked to make Melbourne a safer place for international students

Melbourne welcomes thousands of international students each year as they come to study and learn at Victoria’s universities and tertiary institutions. In 2014, Crime Stoppers ran a localised campaign to help deliver a Safer Melbourne for International Students and Multicultural Communities. With the support of the City of Melbourne, we developed an international student safety fact sheet along with a suite of multilingual audio clips on crime reporting and safety for our website. Our safety messages reached an estimated 250,000 residents and visitors to the metropolitan area. We also launched a brand new multicultural community service announcement encouraging Victorian residents and visitors to take up the Crime Stoppers mission and be a Crime Stopper too.

We collaborated with the TAC to make Victorian roads safer

Road trauma affects thousands of Victorians every year. Around five people die on our roads every week, with 15 people seriously injured every day, and one person injured in a road incident every 30 minutes. Crime Stoppers Victoria is committed to working with the community to help make our roads safer for all road users.

We are proud to have worked alongside the Transport Accident Commission (TAC) over the past year to provide an avenue for the community to report dangerous driving behaviour, and to raise community awareness around dangerous and hoon driving behaviour.

Around 5 people die on our roads

every week*

15 people are seriously injured

every day*

Every 30 minutes 1 person is injured in a road accident*

In 2014-2015, Crime Stoppers Victoria received 9,046 Hoon/Road Traffic Information Reports.

* Source: www.towardszero.vic.gov.au

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WE ENGAGED WITH VICTORIANS AROUND CRIME AND SAFETY

Crime Stoppers Victoria engaged with numerous charities, organisations and community members across the state over the past twelve months to spread the Crime Stoppers message and help keep Victorian families and communities safe.

We visited 22 regional communities across the state to speak with local media, councils, community groups and residents about community crime and safety issues

We met Victorians of all ages as host of community events including Elmore Field Day, the Australian Teenage Expo and the Royal Melbourne Show.

We worked with a range of Victorian agencies to spread our community education and reporting messages, including Neighbourhood Watch, the Country Fire Authority and the State Emergency Service’s Driver Reviver Units.

We hit the airwaves to broadcast the Crime Stoppers message to thousands of Victorians each week, with regular spots on 3AW, InnerFM, MyMP, Plenty Valley FM and Casey Radio.

We took our community engagement to the big screen too, with a full colour Crime Stoppers animation on high rotation at Melbourne’s Moomba Festival on the Yarra from 6-9 March 2015.

We increased our digital footprint

Our website crimestoppersvic.com.au had 364,679 unique visitors, viewing our Wanted and Unsolved Crime pages more than 185,111 times

We took the Crime Stoppers message to Twitter for the first time, achieving 887,000 impressions in the first ten months.

We launched the Crime Stoppers Victoria LinkedIn page to digitally connect with other businesses, organisations and community groups.

We used YouTube to communicate with audience’s right across the state. Our crime education and detection videos were viewed a total of 97,926 times, with an average of 8,161 views each month.

Victorians continued to adopt our new smartphone crime reporting app. Installs of our smartphone crime reporting app for iPhone and Android climbed each month, with more Victorians than ever now having access to our reporting functions whenever and wherever they need it at the touch of a button.

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WE CELEBRATED OUR COMMUNITY CRIME STOPPERS

Crime Stoppers Victoria celebrated a year of record results with a formal thank you function for our supporters and valued Multicultural Media Program partners at the Old Melbourne Gaol on 24 July, 2014.

The Mersina Halvagis Perpetual Award was presented to Peter Hitchener of Nine Network Australia. This award was established in 2009 to honour the memory of murder victim Mersina Halvagis, and acknowledges an individual or organisation that has made a special contribution to the Crime Stoppers vision.

Peter and Channel 9 have been huge supporters of Crime Stoppers since Crime Stoppers Victoria first began in 1987, heading the weekly Crime Stoppers Target Crime segment.

Many Victorian’s recognise Hitch as the face of Crime Stoppers, and his support of the Crime Stoppers Channel 9 Target Crime has led to a great many arrests over the years. We are immensely proud to have him as part of the Crime Stoppers family.

The S.I. “Mick” Miller Award was presented to Victoria Police Crime Stoppers Unit’s Detective Senior Sergeant Michael Bennett.

This award is presented annually to a member of Victoria Police for an outstanding contribution to the Victorian Crime Stoppers Program.

Detective Senior Sgt. Bennett is a respected and long-serving member of the Crime Stoppers team. His ongoing commitment and passion for the Crime Stoppers program was recognised on an international level with the 2014 Crime Stoppers International Paul D Boudreau Coordinator of the Year Service Award, given in recognition for outstanding performance and commitment, personifying a spirit of community cooperation and demonstrating qualities of leadership.

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BOARD PROFILES

Sal Perna – Chairman (Director 2009 – 2015)

Greg Thompson – Deputy Chairman (Director 1998 – 2015)

Mark Burke – Treasurer (Director 2011 – 2015)

Kondilo Sideris – Company Secretary (Director 2012 – 2015)

Member of Crime Stoppers Remuneration Committee

Sal is Victoria’s inaugural Racing Integrity Commissioner appointed in 2010. His background includes running the corporate security units of two of Australia’s largest corporations, Australia Post and Telstra, and founder of Calibre International, a bespoke anti-corruption, security risk and management consultancy business.

Prior to his corporate appointments, Sal enjoyed a 20 year career with Victoria Police reaching Commissioned Officer rank and serving twice with the Homicide Squad. Sal is also the Chief Commissioner’s representative on the Victoria Police Blue Ribbon Foundation Board and has served on the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and Australian Football League (Victoria) Tribunal. Sal Perna joined Crime Stoppers Victoria as a Director in 2009 and has been Chairman since 2012.

Member of Crime Stoppers Audit & Risk Committee, Member of Remuneration Committee

Recently moving into semi-retirement after a 35-year career in the Victorian Public Sector, Greg Thompson is continuing to consult in the areas of risk management, strategic planning and community safety; areas where he has extensive executive experience. In the six months prior to his retirement, Greg was also the Senior Risk Adviser to the Victorian State Government’s involvement in the 2015 Family Violence Royal Commission.

His career placements included 17 years with Victoria Police; eight years in the Victorian Treasury; and the last six years and Principal Strategist and Corporate Planning Manager in the Victorian Government’s main risk management agent; the VMIA. All of these placements were in managerial roles.

Now serving in his 17th year as a Director of Crime Stoppers Victoria (CSV), Greg has been CSV Deputy Chairman since 2011 and is also an alternative Victorian Director on the national Board of Crime Stoppers Australia (CSA); a body in which he was instrumental in establishing in 2001. He remains committed to, and passionate about, the role Crime Stoppers plays in community safety and security.

Member of Crime Stoppers Audit & Risk Committee

Mark Burke has served as a Director of CSV since June 2011 and Audit Committee Chair since November 2012.

Mark is a senior Finance professional and has private and public sector experience, as well as extensive exposure to the not for profit sector.

His industry experience includes Banking & Finance, Insurance, Automotive, Hospitality, Tourism, Water Utilities and Health.

Mark is a qualified CPA, holds a Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance and a Bachelor of Business (Accounting).

Member of Crime Stoppers Audit & Risk Committee

Kondilo Sideris started her professional life practising law, where she worked across a number of disciplines in both private practice and in-house. While in-house at Australia Post, Kondilo moved into management and worked on communicating the corporation’s superannuation offering to its employees. Kondilo has spent the last eight years working on various projects including writing travel journals and has enjoyed utilising her skills to assist in her local community.

Kondilo served on the St Kilda Park Primary School Council from 2008 - 2012 as a general member and Deputy Chair. Kondilo also sat on its Education Committee. From October 2012 Kondilo has been serving on the Crime Stoppers Victoria Board as a general member and as its Company Secretary. Kondilo also sits on the Audit and Risk Committee.

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Adrian Roeling has been managing communications businesses and developing communication strategies across all spectrums of media for the past 16 years, with experience in international and Australian markets, across a wide variety of industry sectors.

Prior to becoming Managing Director of Dentsu Mitchell, Adrian spent the previous 10 years specialising in digital communications, working both client and agency side, utilising technology to drive innovative and effective marketing solutions. Adrian is particularly passionate about marketing and communication’s ability to generate genuine engagement, facilitate education, be useful, and ultimately drive beneficial outcomes for governments, not-for-profits and brands alike.

Most importantly, Adrian is a husband and father of two young boys. His favourite thing in the world is spending time with his family; holidaying, water skiing and coaching the boys soccer team. Adrian strongly believes in Crime Stoppers, and the important role the organisation plays in helping make our society a safer and more enjoyable one.

Life Members: Geoff Wilkinson OAM, Terry Guinan, Ken McKenzie, Bob Bruce, Allan King, Valentine Smith Ambassador: George Halvagis

Cathy Rhodes – Board Member (Director 2009 – 2015)

Paul Di Mattina – Board Member (Director 2013 – 2015)

Cathy has recently commenced at Crime Stoppers Victoria as General Manager. She is a well-known and respected media industry veteran having commenced her career at Channel Nine to become their Manager Group Sales Melbourne moving to Network TEN as their General Sales Manager for Melbourne followed by a 10 year appointment at Val Morgan Cinema Network as the Sales Director – Melbourne. Cathy is particularly passionate about the safety and well-being of young Victorians.

Cathy joined the board in 2008 contributing her extensive knowledge and understanding of the media, and in particular television and cinema, to a range of crime prevention and educational initiatives.

Penny Croser – Board Member (Director 2013 – 2015)

Member of Crime Stoppers Remuneration Committee

Penny has a long career in public service, including experience Federally, at State level and internationally. Penny is currently an Executive Director in the Department of Education and Training. Prior to that, Penny was a Director in the Department of Justice, where she led the establishment of Emergency Management Victoria, and the development of a new Police Act for Victoria. Prior to that Penny was a founding executive in the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Agency, and an executive in intergovernmental relations in Department of Premier and Cabinet. Penny has a Masters in Public Policy from the London School of Economics. Penny has a lifelong commitment to public service and is dedicated to her role on Crime Stoppers Board.

Paul is the MD of the DiMattina Restaurant Group which includes DiMattina’s in Carlton, Il Gambero in Carlton, Society Restaurant in Bourke Street, Melbourne CBD, and Blue Train Cafe I Southbank. Paul has been instrumental in developing and managing the group which now employs over 300 staff across 2 States and serves in excess of 30,000 customers a week.

Paul is also well known ex AFL player with the Western Bulldogs and Essendon Football Clubs and also serves on the AFLPA Past Players Advisory Board. Paul was appointed as a Director in 2013.

Adrian Roeling – Board Member (Director 2014 – 2015)

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OUR SUPPORTERS

A Message from our Premier Partner Motorola Solutions

Motorola Solutions is extremely proud to be a major partner with Crime Stoppers Victoria and we congratulate the team for the remarkable work their community programs achieve to help prevent and solve crime in Victoria.

Motorola Solutions is similarly committed to enhancing community safety by delivering Next Generation Mobile Intelligence (NGMI).

NGMI is about putting information into the hands of first responders over a choice of devices, networks and applications. NGMI allows public safety agencies to shift from reacting and responding to predicting and preventing; front line responders can operate at their highest potential by having the right information at the right time.

For more than 45 years, our team has been supporting public safety agencies across Australia and New Zealand to create communications they can trust in the moments that matter. With emphasis on partnership and collaboration, our team is focused on driving innovation and technology solutions to create safer cities and thriving communities.

The partnership we have enjoyed with Crime Stoppers Victoria for the past 11 years is very important in helping us to better understand and support the needs of emergency services and the work they do every day.

We are very pleased that by supporting and partnering with Crime Stoppers Victoria, we can also give back to the community and help make Victoria a safer place to live.

Steve Crutchfield

Managing Director

Motorola Solutions Australia Pty Ltd

A Message from Victoria Police

Over the past year, Victoria Police and Crime Stoppers have continued to work collaboratively with the shared goal of keeping the community safe. The information provided to Crime Stoppers is invaluable in enabling police to detect offences and hold offenders accountable, and we appreciate the willingness of the community to continue supporting that objective.

In 2014/15, there was a record number of 1455 arrests resulting from contacts with Crime Stoppers; the highest in its 28 year history. There were also more than 4,000 charges resulting from these contacts, indicating that the community are providing reliable and valuable information. With an average of 173 calls and contacts each day, Crime Stoppers should be proud of their success in engaging the community.

The work of Crime Stoppers is an important complement to Victoria Police; it’s a well-known brand that the community trust, and a rich source of information. I am confident that the results we achieve through Crime Stoppers play a vital role in keeping communities safe, and preventing further incidents of victimisation.

I look forward to continuing our collaboration and I thank Crime Stoppers for their ongoing support of law enforcement efforts.

Graham Ashton AM

Chief Commissioner

Victoria Police

A Message from the Victorian Government

On behalf of Victorian Government, I’d like to pay tribute to the hard work of the Board, staff and volunteers who continue to make Crime Stoppers such a vital part of our community.

Though Crime Stoppers is now a nationwide community organisation, it was actually founded here in Victoria in 1987.

Twenty eight years later, there is a Crime Stoppers in every state. And you only get to stick around for 28 years if you are performing a clear community service, backed up by the hard work of many.

The Hon. Wade Noonan MP

Minister for Police

Minister for Corrections

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FINANCIAL REPORT

Income and Expenditure (July 1 2014 to June 30 2015)

Income

Sponsorships and grants $965,557

Other Revenue $10,405

Interest $12,135

Total Income $988,097

Expenses

Program Delivery and Advertising $282,065

Management and Administration $146,947

Rewards $6,000

Salaries and employees benefit $432,568

Total Expenses $867,580

Operating Surplus $120,517

Income Percentage Break Down

● Sponsorships and grants 97.72%

● Other Revenue 1.05%

● Interest 1.23%

Expense Percentage Break Down

● Program Delivery and Advertising 32.55%

● Management and Administration 16.84%

● Rewards 0.69%

● Salaries and employees benefit 49.92%

Number of employees

up from 3 to 8 (166.67%)

Income from sponsorships and grants up 11.69%

Total expenditure down 6.66%

Operating surplus up 10.54%

Comparison to 2014

Total revenue down 3.49%

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MEDIA PARTNERS

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