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If someone is in danger now, call 911. Tips here are not monitored around the clock. Windsor Watchers is a news desk. It cannot dispatch officers and it is not an anonymous police tip line.

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A public service desk for reporting and official 2026 safety information

Windsor Watchers helps people in Windsor and Essex County, including Belle River in the Town of Lakeshore, find official ways to report a crime or a concern, read official wanted notices, and see reported-incident figures for 2026. It is part of Windsor News. This site is not legal advice and is not a police service. It is not an anonymous police tip line.

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Credits and rights

A Windsor Police Service cruiser, with a red maple leaf, the Windsor Police crest, and the word POLICE on the door
A Windsor Police Service cruiser. Photograph by Crisco 1492, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and colour-graded for this site.
Ouellette Avenue in downtown Windsor at night, with a red traffic light, hanging lights, and a line of cars heading toward Pitt Street
Ouellette Avenue at night. Photograph by Chris Woodrich, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped and colour-graded for this site. One license plate is blurred.

What this desk does

Call 911 if someone is in danger now. Tips here are not monitored around the clock. For a crime that is not an emergency, use the official non-emergency number or online reporting page for the police service that covers that place. Those official lines are listed on How to Report.

You can also text a tip to the Windsor News desk at (226) 774-2258, or see all the ways on the Send a tip page. The text line is working. Texts go to the desk and are stored encrypted. There is no auto-reply. Your phone number is visible to us. We are a newsroom, not a police anonymity program, and we cannot promise anonymity if a court or lawful order requires us to disclose information.

Windsor Watchers cooperates fully with police and with any lawful order. We pass tips to the right police service, and we never stand in the way of an investigation.

A local anonymous police tip program paused acceptance of new tips on 28 October 2026. That pause was still in effect as of 10 November 2026. This desk does not replace that program and does not claim its protections.

Read our Our Oath, Terms, and Privacy and security.

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Text a tip: (226) 774-2258

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