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Crime Stoppers board members Laurissa Ellsworth and Sean Robbins.
Petrolia a pilot for CrimeStoppers awareness program
April 23, 2026
The Independent
Petrolia is home to a new Sarnia-Lambton Crime Stoppers pilot project encouraging people to speak out when they see crime happening.
The organization is putting up signs in neighbourhoods encouraging people to call Crime Stoppers anomously when they see something.
“We think of it as a way to remind people that when they know something about an incident or
criminal activity in your community that it’s easy to send in a tip and potentially earn a reward for
doing so. Our goal is to get drugs off the streets and bring criminals to justice,” said local Crime Stoppers President Sean Robbins in a news release Thursday.
The signs, he adds, are placed around Petrolia as a passive reminder that you can make a difference when you have information and the tips can contribute to the solution of unsolved crimes.
The board will ask each community in Lambton to place the signs to promote community safety.
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