Monday, August 24, 1998

Police cross the online
http://www.ps.uga.edu/pd/ (choose “New Links”) or go directly to http://www.ps.uga.edu/pd/all.html
Webmasters: Andrea Pitts and Jason Airlie

The newly revamped Web site operated by UGA’s police department doesn’t just provide information to the public--it gives the public a way to provide information in return.
The “GOTCHA” page (“Getting On To Crime at Home Anonymously”) consists of a form for reporting a crime or accident. Informants can leave their name or remain anonymous, as they prefer, or anonymous informants can give themselves a nickname.
Either way, informants are immediately given a referral number for their report and are asked to check back in a few days to see if additional information is needed. Detectives can post questions in an electronic “interrogation room,” addressing them to the name or nickname provided with the original report.
The site also offers answers to frequent questions, news releases, lists of recent arrests and of unsolved crimes, safe housing tips and campus crime statistics.
“We hope we’ll get a lot of mileage from this as time goes on,” says Chuck Horton, UGA’s chief of police.
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