Thread: Border Patrol Launches Text and Web TIP Service

U.S. Border Patrol’s Spokane Sector Launches Text Messaging and Web Tip Service

(Thursday, June 03, 2010)

Spokane, Wash. – For the first time ever, mobile phone and internet users now have the ability to provide anonymous tips to the U.S. Border Patrol’s Spokane, Wash., Sector through the power of text messaging and web tips.

The Spokane Sector Border Patrol and Anderson Software, the industry leader in law enforcement tip management software and web applications, have joined together to provide this service, which allows citizens to help combat cross-border crime and smuggling by sending an anonymous text message from a mobile phone or online.

“The popularity of text messaging has created a significant opportunity for the public to assist the Border Patrol in combating cross-border crime and smuggling,â€

This is nice for border vollunteers indeed. If it works that is.

I hope this work so it will go nationwide.