If I’ve seen something suspicious, who should I call?
In case of an Emergency or a Crime in Progress, call 9-1-1 immediately.
If you require Police assistance but are not in an emergency situation (e.g., reporting thefts, vandalism, fraud, etc.) or for other situations where no person or property is in immediate danger, please call the Toronto Police Service non-emergency number at (416) 808-2222.
To report a crime online, please visit torontopolice.on.ca/core
To report anonymously, please call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), visit 222tips.com, leave a tip on the Toronto Police Service Leave a Tip page on Facebook, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637).
Every incident that is investigated by the Toronto Police Service is assigned a reference number (also known as an occurrence or case number). These reference numbers are included in all CrimePoint notifications. If you want to provide investigators with more information about any reported incident, please quote the reference number.
If you have more information about a reported incident, you can file a supplemental report at torontopolice.on.ca/core/supplemental_report.php
To report anonymously, please call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477), visit 222tips.com, leave a tip on the Toronto Police Service Leave a Tip page on Facebook, or text TOR and your message to CRIMES (274637).
CrimePoint uses publicly shared data from the Business Intelligence & Analytics Unit at the Toronto Police Service (TPS). This represents frontline reporting published by the Toronto Police Service via the TPS Year-to-Date Crime App available at data.torontopolice.on.ca.
The information in our updates matches the same information published by the Toronto Police Service at the time of distribution. To protect the privacy of those involved, no personal information is ever shared and the exact locations of all incidents are randomly offset to nearby intersections. As cases are more fully investigated, some details may be subject to change. We do not report on changes to open or ongoing investigations.
CrimePoint will only report an incident once it has first been reported to the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and published (usually within 24 hours) on the TPS Year-to-Date Crime App. If an incident is reported to the Police days, weeks or months after happening, it begins to appear in our notifications on the day the incident was reported and published, not necessarily on the day it occurred.
CrimePoint is designed to let subscribers know when a major crime incident has been reported to the Police in their immediate area. When you subscribe to CrimePoint, you can tell us your postal code and set a reporting radius (in kilometres). If a major crime is reported within your area, we’ll let you know.
Ideally, it is best to set your reporting radius to 1, 2 or 3 km. If you set your reporting radius too high, you may receive very long lists of incidents and it can be more difficult to determine which of those incidents actually occurred in your immediate area.
Our system will only report up to 50 incidents in one notification email. If you find that you are regularly receiving very long lists of reported incidents, then you may want to lower your reporting radius.
If you are already a CrimePoint subscriber and want to change how you receive your notifications (frequency, postal code, reporting radius, etc.), you must first unsubscribe from CrimePoint. You will receive a verification email to confirm that you want to unsubscribe.
Then subscribe to CrimePoint again using your new notification settings. You will receive another verification email to confirm that you want to subscribe again.
Your notifications settings have now been changed!
The privacy of your personal information is very important to us. Your name, email address and postal code are only used for the purposes of personalizing your notification settings and communicating with you. We do not share your personal information with anyone.
We are a group of volunteers who are developing an automated crime notification system designed to notify subscribers by email whenever a major crime is reported in their area.
Our volunteer work with Community Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) and Neighbourhood Watch has been recognized by the Toronto Police Service, members of the government and local media outlets. Our experience has shown us that there is a large amount of public interest in subscribing to a service like this and helping to improve the safety and security of the neighbourhoods in which we live and work.
The purpose of CrimePoint is to raise awareness of criminal activity in our neighbourhoods and aid in our ability to recognize suspicious activity when we see it. If you know about a crime that has been reported in your area, you are more likely to report something suspicious that you may have also seen to the proper authorities. Likewise, if you know about a crime that has been reported in your area, you are also more likely to take precautions to prevent it from happening again.
If you have any further questions, please contact us at Hello@CrimePoint.info
