Barron County Sheriff's Department launching new crime-fighting tools

The Barron County Sheriff’s Department has launched three new community tools to increase the public’s access to information.

Over the next six weeks, the Sheriff’s Department will launch a new tip line, a crime information map and a way for people to help law enforcement with registering their camera locations.

This week, the new Community Tip Line through City Protect begins. This tool allows the relay of tips and information to law enforcement that will assist police in keeping their community safe together.

Anyone can submit tips to the Sheriff’s Department by visiting cityprotect.com , selecting the Barron County Sheriff’s Department from the agencies list and clicking on “Submit tips.”

The City Protect link has been shared on the Sheriff’s Department Facebook page and added to its website.

This new feature allows people to submit a tip anonymously. While the Sheriff’s Department understands the reason for reporting a tip anonymously, people can be of more assistance by leaving their contact information in the “Details” box of the tip screen. This would allow the Sheriff’s Department to contact the tipster with any questions and to follow up on the tip.

“We are excited to launch these three community tools,” Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said. “In approximately two weeks, we will release our community crime map followed by our camera location registration tool approximately two week after that.”