ALBANY, NY — The New York State Police (NYSP) have added an email address to which members of the public can submit tips on wanted individuals. The email address is crimetip@troopers.ny.gov.

This follows what the NYSP calls the successful “Warrant Wednesday,” on the organization’s Facebook page. The statewide initiative rolled out in February of 2014, with a posting each Wednesday featuring posters of wanted persons with arrest or bench warrants from across the state. A phone number for the public to call in tips was posted on each poster. State police have made 24 arrests as a direct result of postings on the Facebook page. Twelve of those arrests were from tips on warrants that were posted.

Each Warrant Wednesday posting includes a poster of a wanted individual contributed by state police troops across the state. The poster includes a photo, information about the subject, what they are wanted for, along with the email address and a contact number for the appropriate state police station.

NYSP encourages the public to view and share the postings each week. The organization stresses, however, that it is important that anyone with information as to the whereabouts of the individuals not take any police action themselves, and instead contact police. The public should not post tips directly on the Facebook page, but instead use the phone number or email included in each warrant poster.