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First Selectman Gets Complaints About Phony Reports to Police Digital Tip Line

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Darien Police Captain Donald Anderson said the department is pretty pleased with its new digital tip line that not only allows people to send in an anonymous tip, but allows them to keep their anonymity if police send them a message asking for more information. But First Selectman Jayme Stevenson is getting complaints about abuse of the tip line by people acting anonymously and perhaps vengefully against others, and she said she wanted to discuss with police their tone when they question kids after a tip about them comes in. Stevenson and Anderson spoke at last week’s quarterly department heads meeting with the Board of Selectmen. Anderson was filling in for Police Chief Duane Lovello, who was in New York at a training event. Police Pleased with Tip Line
As part of the Police Department’s report, Anderson mentioned how pleased police are with the new tip line.

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You Can Now Text Anonymous Tips to Darien Police

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Darien police recently announced an online service allowing the public to send in anonymous tips through a website. Now police have announced that anonymous tips can be texted. Here’s the latest police announcement:

The Darien Police Department has partnered with Motorola Solutions to provide a fully anonymous crime tipping service that allows Darien residents to send tips to the Darien Police and for tipsters and tip recipients to anonymously communicate back and forth if further information is needed. The new service, called TipSoft, allows residents to report crimes they see in a variety of manners. Tips can be submitted online at www.tipsubmit.com, via text by sending a text message to “CRIMES” (274637) with the keyword darientips from a mobile phone, or through the TipSubmit mobile app.

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You Can Now Submit Anonymous Tips to Darien Police Online

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An anonymous service that allows you to send in a tip to Darien police has started, the Police Department has announced. The tips are collected by a website, TipSubmit.com. run by a company called Public Engines Inc., which sends the information to police. The company’s “Confidential Web Tip Information System” appears to be part of its “TipSoft” services, which also include an application for smartphones and the ability to text a tip. In the department’s announcement, only the ability to use the online service, not the phone app or texting, was mentioned, but on Tuesday, Police Chief Duane Lovello told the Board of Selectmen that the department has ordered the texting service as well.