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economist suntribune police thursday sept 12 2002 crime stoppers wins honours by roger varley staff writer york regions crime stoppers pro gram has been so successful in its first year of operation it won four firstplace awards at an international conference last month beating hundreds of other programs around the world at the 23rd crime stoppers international training conference held in ottawa the york region program took the television award for one of its crime of the week shows first place awards for recovery of drugs and stolen goods and the mostimproved award for stolen goods recovered detconst kim killby said the televi sion award resulted from a crime of the week profile of an arson in which 10 cement trucks were set on fire the crime has not yet been solved in the category of stolen goods recov ered the york program resulted in the return of almost 11 million worth of property in 2001 compared with 1 19000 the year earlier what was interesting was one of the items recovered was an earth scraper which was stolen from the yonge streetmulock drive area which was featured on a crime of the week said detconst killby in the drug category more than 182 million worth of drugs were seized mainly because of tips about indoor marijuanagrowing operations drug tips are number one said det- const killby noting crime stoppers of york region has been receiving more tele phone tips since separating from the toronto crime stoppers a year ago we started getting more calls when we went on our own she said for example in june we took 64 calls and in may we had 76 we thought july was quiet but found we had 53 tips prior to july 200 1 york was part of the toronto and region crime stoppers organization which started in 1984 because calls to the tip line 1-800-222- tips went to toronto tips for york regional police were sometimes delayed now although the callin num ber remains the same bell canada routes any calls originating in york region to the newmarket police office its 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