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Crime Stoppers comes to Huron County
BY ANNE CHI SHOLM
HURON COUNTY - You've probably
seen it on your television, perhaps you've
read about it in a daily newspaper, well get
ready, it's corning to Huron County.
A different approach has recently been
taken in an attempt to solve crimes and cut
down on the amount of criminal activity in
communities. This approach involves
telephone calls from community residents
to police officers. In short, the program is
Crime Stoppers.
"We're doing it for our communities. We
want to make them safer," explained OPP
Constable Jeff Sabin during an informa-
tion meeting on November 18.
WHAT IS CRIME STOPPERS°
According to a pamphlet on Crime Stop-
pers, it is a "non-profit program relying on
co-operation between the police force,
news media and members of your com-
munity. Crime Stoppers encourages peo-
ple to call the police with information to
solve any serious crimes already commit-
ted, those about to occur and/or the
whereabouts of wanted persons."
One of the five guest speakers during the
evening was Murray Smart, Chairman of
the Owen Sound, Grey Bruce Crime Stop-
, per program, who told the audience that
the three components are vital to the
program.
"The police, media and community
must work together...without co-
operation, the program wouldn't work,"
he said.
If a person has information that fits the
above criteria, Crime Stoppers offers
them a way to pass the informaion on to
the police, never having to identify
themselves.
A toll free number is usually made
available for callers. When they phone,
they are assigned a code number which
will be used to identify themselves in
future dealings with Crime Stopper
personnel.
"You need the 1-800 (toll free) number
for people who are calling from out -lying
areas. You want the people to remain
anonymous and not have to pay," said Mr.
Smart, whose Crime Stoppers program
does have a toll free number. "In Huron
County you have a wide geographic area
so a toll free Watts number would be
great."
Another feature of the program is that a..
cash reward may be awarded to the caller.
"Based on the value of information
received, the caller may get up to $1,000
with the Grey Bruce Crime Stoppers pro-
gram," said Mr. Smart.
Crime Stoppers is operated by a group of
citizens who make up the board of direc-
tors. When the Huron County program
starts, it is hoped the board members will
number 15.
"We have 11 potential board members
now," said Mr. Sabin, police co-ordinator.
These members have been recot ►mend-
ed by people of the community,t „' ehad
the program explained to there ''"1n
good standing with the community" and
are a general cross section of
communities.
FUNDING
Crime Stoppers is incorporated as a
charitable organization, therefore they
must solicit the money they require for
their operation, including the money„ for
rewards.
"Our board of directors is divided into
committess," said Mr. Smart. "One com-
mittee deals with advertising then there's
public relations, then guidelines as well as
fund raising."
As an example of what the fund raising
committee does, Mr. Smart told of the Fly-
ing Fathers hockey game they put on with
the co-operation of another charity.
The advertising committee looks after
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"We don't use tax dollars...donations are
used," Mr. Smart explained. "We try to
get everything donated,
"The posters were donated by a printer
and the newspapers donate space to run
the Crime of the Week."
The guidelines committee sets the
amount which should be handed out as
rewards.
WHO CALLS°
It has been discovered that there is a
60-40 split between criminal callers and
concerned citizens. Sixty per cent of the in-
formers are of the criminal type while 40
per cent are average people.
"Forty per cent are average citizens
who don't want to get involved and don't
want the criminal coming after them,"
said Mr. Smart. "They could be mothers
who are concerned about drug pushing."
WHO ANSWERS°
Using the Grey Bruce Crime Stoppers
program as an example once again, Dave
Osborne, advisor to the board of directors
and also a member of the OPP in-
vestigating squad, said the phones are
manned during office hours, Monday to
Friday.
The person the caller gets is a police
officer.
PROGRAM IS SPREADING
Another speaker was Howard Wright,
co-ordinator of the province's OPP Crime
Stoppers. He told the audience that each of
the OPP districts should have a Crime
Stoppers program in it by the summer of
1988.
"OPP involvement (in Crime Stoppers)
started one year ago this month," he said.
"Each of the 16 districts should have a pro-
gram by summer.
"If you see the OPP getting that involv-
ed in a program in one year, it must
work."
STATISTICS
The best way to gage the effectiveness of
a program is to look at the statistics -
number of phone calls and the number of
cases solved because of the phone calls.
In Grey Bruce, the program started on
May 15 and from that date to October 31,
the OPP have made 18 arrests, placed 60
charges and cleared 50 cases with 120 calls
to Crime Stoppers.
As for drugs, they were able to recover
$1,780 worth as well as $5,300 in stolen pro-
perty. For this, they paid $800 in rewards.
"We're extremely satisfied," said Mr.
Osborne.
One case he told about happened in July
and involved five arsons during one night.
"I worked on it for a week and I was on
the wrong trail. Then a call came in to
Crime . Stoppers who told who they (ar-
sonists) were," Mr. Osborne explained.
"That'eliminated a lot of work.
"I went to the person (who was named)
and laid 15 charges of arson."
In all, that one phone call led to 17
charges of arson and one mischief charge.
Cal Miller, a crime writer for the Toron-
to Star and a member of the International
Board of Crime Stoppers, gave statistics
on the Toronto program which started in
1984.
"For the first month, we literally had no
stats. By the end of the year, we couldn't
believe the results," Mr. Miller said.
From July 1984 to October 31, 1987, 2,970
charges were laid; $1.6 -million in stolen
property was recovered; $16.1 -million
(street value) worth of drugs were seized
because of 11,194 calls to Crime Stoppers.
HURON COUNTY CRIME STOPPERS
Mr. Sabin, who has been working on set-
ting up Huron County's Crime Stopper pro-
gram for approximately one month, hopes
to live all the loose ends tied up by mid-
March so the program can begin.
"It will be similar to the Grey Bruce pro-
gram, offering a $50 - $1,000 reward," Mr.
Sabin said.
One difference he foresees is the
operating budget. Presently Grey Bruce is
working with a $15,000 - $20,000 budget
while Huron's would be approximately
$10,000.
Because the Huron Crime Stopper pro-
gram is for the entire county, Mr. Sabin
said the central location of Clinton has
been chosen as their headquarters,
operating out of a room in the Clinton
Police Department.
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THE PLANNING ACT, 1983
NOTICE OF THE PASSING OF
A ZONING BY-LAW BY THE CORPORATION
OF THE TOWN OF GODERICH
TAKE NOTICE that the Council of the Town of Goderich passed By-law
128-1987 on the 23rd day of November, 1987, under Section 34 of the Planning
Act, 1983.
AND TAKE NOTICE that any person or agency may appeal to the Ontario
Municipal Board in respect of the. By-law by filing with the Clerk of the Town
of Goderich, not later than the 29th day of December, 1987, a notice of appeal
setting out the objection to the by-law and and the reasons in support of the
objection.
AN EXPLANATION of the purpose and effect of the by-law, describing the
lands to which the by-law applies, and map showing the location of the lands
to which the by-law applies are provided below. The complete by-law is available
for inspection at my office during regular office hours.
DATED AT THE TOWN OF GODERICH
THIS 24th DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1987.
Larry J. McCabe
Clerk -Treasurer
Town of Goderich
57 West St.
GODERICH, Ont.
N7A 2K5
(519) 524-8344
By-law 128-1987 has the following purpose and effect:
The zoning amendment affects the lands shown on the attached map for which
a new plan of subdivision is proposed. The by-law incorporates the proposed
plan of subdivision into by-law 38-1985 and places it into a holding category
(-H) until plans are finalized. The by-law permits single family houses (R1),
medium density dwellings (R2), and apartments (R3) as shown on the map below.
The apartment blocks shown as R3 -8-H permit 6 storey buildings and a max-
imum density of 40 units per acre (if buildings are built with 5 or fewer storeys,
the maximum density is 30 units per acre).
This by-law amends zoning by-law 38-1985.
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this amendment
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