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JOHN WHITSON
"Crimeline is a separate entity that works alongside police. Officers field phone calls from tipsters, take information, evaluate it and share it with Crimeline's 17-member board of directors. If a tip proves useful, the board decides the award amount — up to $2,500 — based on the accuracy of the tipster's information and the severity of the crime solved. When police and the tipster settle on a time and place for reward money to change hands, Pare gets out his briefcase and heads to the bank. He is always accompanied by an officer during the money drop — in recent years it's been Sgt. Lloyd Doughty, supervisor of the crime prevention unit. "
