Prevention

Anonymous phone number 080 - 1200

080-1200 "Joining forces against crime"

IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ASSIST THE POLICE
IN THE INVESTIGATION AND DETECTION OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES,
IF YOU KNOW THE WHEREABOUTS OF
AN OFFENDER OR OBJECTS
THAT MAY SERVE AS EVIDENCE OF A CRIMINAL OFFENCE,
AND IF YOU WISH TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS

CALL THE ANONYMOUS POLICE TIP NUMBER 080-1200

The General Police Directorate Operation and Communication Centre also receives anonymous calls from citizens. Experience in police work has shown that victims and persons suffering damage do not report all criminal and violent incidents and witnesses are often not prepared to give an account of the incident to the Police, either at the scene of the incident, before a court or a misdemeanours judge. The most frequent reason for this so-called "dark field of crime" is fear of revenge by the perpetrator or his/her relatives and fear of lawyers or long court proceedings. Despite the fact that people, particularly in urban environments, are becoming increasingly reserved to events in their surroundings, this does not necessarily mean that they are not willing to report specific information on the facts and circumstances of a criminal offence or information on suspects, on the condition that they are not personally involved in other people's problems.

So as to increase police cooperation with citizens, and thus also the effectiveness of such cooperation, the Operation and Communication Centre introduced a toll-free anonymous telephone number 080-1200 in April 1997 bearing the slogan "Joining forces against crime, we do not require your personal data and you will remain anonymous". The number is available to all those who believe they can provide the police with useful information but wish to remain anonymous. The anonymous tip number is open 24 hours a day. Calls are received by the Assistant Shift Manager, who then makes an assessment as to whether they are sufficiently important for police intervention, records them and notifies the competent criminal service of the contents.

The year 2006 marked the tenth anniversary of the "Joining forces against crime" police campaign, in which the Operation and Communication Centre of the General Police Directorate receives calls on the anonymous telephone number 080-1200. In 2006, there were 555 (664) calls from residents containing contents which were forwarded to the Criminal Police Directorate for further processing. There were 16.4% less calls received in 2006 in comparison to the year before.

Significant findings regarding anonymous calls in 2006:

• When receiving anonymous calls at the telephone number 080-1200, the shift and deputy shift managers of the Operation and Communication Centre of the General Police Directorate established that in 302 or 54.4% of all cases, the information contents required immediate notification of competent police units
• or operation and communication centres of police directorates.
• Immediate actions or investigation of a criminal offence was carried out in some cases.
• Residents were the most frequent callers, whereby 191 calls or 34.4% of all calls were drug-related, followed by other cases comprising 105 or 18.9% of the calls and finally 86 or 15.5% in connection with property misdemeanours.
• A comparison of the number of calls by local competent police directorates ranks the Ljubljana Police Directorate in the first place, having received almost one half of all calls (47%), followed by the Celje Police Directorate (13.3%) and Maribor Police Directorate (11%). The share of remaining police directorates ranged from between 2 and 6 percent.
• The majority of calls were received in March, namely 60, with between 32 and 56 received monthly in remaining months.

Number of calls to the anonymous tip number 080-1200 by month

Anonymous calls during the period 1997 - 2006

Anonymous calls by time of day in 2006

Anonymous calls by day of the week in 2006

Anonymous calls by content in 2006

Division of the number of anonymous calls by police directorate in 2006