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BRIEF: tip411 on your cellular phone
Nov 30, 2009 (The Garden City Telegram - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) --
The Garden City Police Department has launched a new tip411 anonymous texting program.
The tip411 system is an Internet-based tool that enables the public to text anonymous tips and send anonymous messages to the department through its Web site.
To use the system, use a cell phone and text the word GCTIP and tip information to tip411 or 847411.
Anonymous tips also can be submitted from a link on the police department's Web site at gcpolice.org. The program allows the department to send a return text, creating a two-way anonymous "chat."
Tipsters sending information through the Web site will be given a code that enables them to log back into their tip to see if police have sent a request for additional information.
All tips received through tip411 are completely anonymous.
The goal with the program is to give people who wish to remain anonymous another opportunity to provide police with information to help solve crimes, according to a release from the GCPD.
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