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The Banker’s Advocate
State Bank Department
Web site posts data and images

Little Rock Office
from Arkansas bank robberies
400 Hardin Road, Suite 100
Little Rock, AR 72211-3502
The details of each
Phone: 501-324-9019
bank robbery reported in
Fax: 501-324-9028
Arkansas are being pub-
Email:
lished on line by law en-
asbd@banking.state.ar.us
forcement.

The Web site is:
http://
bandittrackerarkansas.com/
Northwest Arkansas (The Web site is the
Office
property of Spectrum
777 Mathias Drive
Tracking Systems.).
Suite A
BanditTrackerArkan-
Springdale, AR 72762-0739
sas.com was launched in
Phone: 479-751-5543
December 2008 and is
Fax: 479-751-5815
one of several Web sites
Email:
that provide information
NWArk@banking.state.ar.us
about bank robberies in

the United States.
The Web site also dis-
Jonesboro Office
plays photographic im-
924 South Main
ages of each incident.
P.O. Box 9374
The information and
© Copyright BanditTrackerArkansas.com
Jonesboro, AR 72403-9374
images are being made
Bank robbery image on BanditTrackerArkansas.com
Phone: 870-972-1744
available to bankers and
Fax: 870-972-1762
the general public as part
Hitting the
priority.”
Email:
of the effort to appre-
Links
These can be suspects in
recent bank robberies with
jonesboro@banking.state.ar.us
hend and prosecute bank
robbery suspects.
“fresh” photographs or
All content on the
Web site features links to suspects in violent inci-
Web site is vetted and
information about each dents or multiple bank rob-
published by law en-
bank robbery in Arkansas beries.
since June 2007, including The Web site was devel-
We’re on the Web!
forcement. The FBI’s
robberies in which sus- oped, and is funded, by
www.arkansas.gov/bank
Little Rock field office
serves as “gatekeeper” of
pects have been captured. Electronic Tracking Sys-
the Web site, inputting
A typical entry on the tems, Carrollton, Texas,
data on Arkansas bank
Web site includes the date said Rick Battelle, the com-
robberies collected from
and location of the rob- pany’s regional managing
other law enforcement
bery; a description of the director for Central/
agencies or directly from
suspect(s); a description Northeast United States.
banks.
of a weapon if one was According to the com-
Descriptive and narra-
shown during the inci- pany’s Web site (http://
www.etstracking.com/),
tive information about
dent; and contact infor-
Electronic Tracking Sys-
each bank robbery, as
mation – for example, the
tems facilitates the creation
well as photographic im-
telephone number of the
and management of coali-
ages recorded by closed-
investigating FBI office.
tions – consisting of law
A publication of the
circuit cameras during
The home page also
enforcement, government
Arkansas State Bank Department the incident, are pro-
features scrolling entries
and business – that work
vided on the Web site.
about Arkansas bank rob-
to reduce bank robberies
The home page of the
beries committed by sus-
pects considered “high and related crime.
June 30, 2009
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