Help
Using Crime Aware is easy, but here are some helpful tips to ensure you understand how it all works.
Crime Classifications
We classify the crime types on our website like this:
Property Crimes
Using force or intimidation to take property away from another person in the presence of that person.
Contact Crimes
The criminal offense of breaking and entering a building illegally for the purpose of committing a crime in that building.
Aggravated Robbery
The act in which property belonging to another is taken without that person's consent.
Other Crimes
The act of firing a weapon in order to hit, wound, or kill someone or something.
How to Post an Incident
In order to post an incident on Crime Aware, you will need to sign up as a member. There are 3 types of members or contributors to Crime Aware.
Public Member
As members of the public, you and I stand to benefit from the free service that this website provides. We become informed about incidents that occur in our area nad become more aware of the levels of crime that pose a danger to us. In turn we can become more vigilant and cautious where we need to be.
The public can also post incidents to let others around them know what is happening and these can be posted annoymously as well. The more we share knowledge the better we can make our country.
Years ago neighbours did not have high walls and people used to speak to your neighbour, nowadays we hardly know our neighbours. We hope that Crime Aware can break down some of these barriers through knowledge pooling and sharing.
This is a FREE membership.
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News Vendor
A newspaper or news source that is either printed on online. As news vendors often have access to a lot of infomation, its valuable that this is shared and made visible to the public in the interests of safety. This is a FREE membership.
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Security Vendor
A security venodr or security company often has eyes on the groud each day and are in the position to see what is happening in their area and can report back on it first hand. These companies are in some cases more effective that the local polica and work on a subscriber bases. As security vendors charge for thei services and the more they are seen to be active in your local area, the more business they will secure.
Each report they post will have a banner displayed to advertise the company and promote users to contact them about their services. If you are a security vendore - please sign up and a security vendor and we will sned you information on how to advertise on Crime Aware.
This is a PAID membership,
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