NEWS Mick Duthie
Tiff Lynch
TIFF COMES BACK FROM CANCER TREATMENT FOR POLICE UNITY TOUR
HOW CRIMESTOPPERS CAN HELP YOU DELIVER JUSTICE
M
ick Duthie, who enjoyed a 30-year career with the Metropolitan Police and now works for Crimestoppers, has a simple tip for serving officers. The former detective chief superintendent wants colleagues to take
advantage of the enhanced rewards that the charity offers, saying this could help investigators obtain crucial information that speeds up outcomes and delivers justice for victims. Mick said: “In my policing career I was managing dozens of investigations
which cost millions. If I had known that Crimestoppers offered enhanced rewards earlier in an investigation I would have been pushing that out. A reward that gets the bit of information you need in week two rather than week 22 could save hundreds of thousands of pounds. “It could bring people to justice much quicker and keep communities safer.” Mick joined the Met in 1985 and helped solve homicides including the New
Cross double murder in 2008. After retiring, he has taken up the role of Director of Operations for Crimestoppers. The charity’s motto is “Speak up, stay safe”. It has 55 trained staff in its contact
centre, which receives input from police forces and the National Crime Agency. Crimestoppers is enjoying a rise in the number of people passing on
information, which has yielded results around county lines, firearms dealing, sexual offences and human trafficking. Its success is mainly down to its strict pledge on anonymity where calls are
not recorded. A caller’s number is numerically scrambled and IP addresses are stripped from online forms. Mick added: “We are here to help all parts of policing, not just senior
investigating officers. We’re here for your PCSOs, your PCs in the neighbourhood to a detective trying to investigate a sexual offence, all the way up to murders and terrorism. We do more than most people think we do. “Please use the services we provide from the most wanted service to the
enhanced rewards, use your regional manager which your force is paying for and consider us if you have got an appeal.” For more information on enhanced rewards, contact Hunter Thorburn at
hunter.thorburn@
crimestoppers-uk.org.
Just weeks after completing gruelling chemotherapy and radiotherapy, National Board member Tiff Lynch signed up to join hundreds of officers from across the country to take part in the Police Unity Tour (PUT). Tiff, who was diagnosed with breast
cancer on 23 July 2020, said it had been a personal goal to join this year’s tour which sees officers, police staff and supporters cycle from various points around the country to converge at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire for the annual Care of Police Survivors (COPS) Service of Remembrance. “I have done the tour twice before, in 2018 and 2019, and set myself a goal of getting well enough to take part this year,” says Tiff, who is Secretary of the Federation’s Parliamentary and Conduct and Performance Sub-Committees. “It can be quite tough but there’s
a great team atmosphere and it’s something I want to be part of. All riders wear a wristband engraved with the details of a fallen officer and that brings it home to you what it’s all about. I will be riding for Austin Jackson, a Leicestershire officer who died in 2017 when I was the Federation branch chair. “The funds raised by the tour go to
COPS which does some fantastic work in terms of supporting the families of officers who have died in service.” Tiff, who has now been told by specialists that there is “no evidence of disease”, is currently in the final stages of her treatment. She joined the East Midlands Chapter of the PUT with 15 riders setting off from Derbyshire Police HQ on Friday 31 July and making a 180- mile ride to the arboretum for the service on Sunday 1 August. Support Tiff’s fund-raising
at:
justgiving.com/fundraising/ TiffsRideForCareOfPoliceSurvivors
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