Incident Type | Definition | Examples |
Identity Theft | Obtaining someone else’s personal identifying information and using it to obtain credit, goods or services. | While you were in Gloucester Township, someone has stolen you information like a credit card number or social security and uses that information without your authorization. A Township resident may report any identity theft here, no matter where the theft occurred. |
Theft of a bicycle | Theft of a bicycle of any value | Bicycle stolen from lawn, outside of a store or other area that was not separately secured. |
Theft under $1000 | Your property is taken without your permission and the property is under $1000.00 in value. | Property known to be stolen and missing may be recovered property and is not a theft. |
Harassment (except domestic violence, threats with a weapon or bomb threats) | A person who engages in alarming conduct or repeatedly committing acts with the purpose of causing alarm or seriously annoying another person | Harassing phone calls, personal threats, continuous harassment that affects one’s way of life. (Not involving domestic violence related issues, threats with a weapon or bomb threats.) |
Criminal mischief | The act of changing, modifying or defacing public or private property | Graffiti, knocking over mailbox, throwing rock through a window, vandalism, etc. |
Lost property (except lost firearms or other weapon) | When property if missing or lost. | Property that is missing, i.e.. Leaving unidentifiable item in a restaurant or missing from home. |
Follow up report | For submitting additional information for an incident | |
Reports for insurance purposes | When a report is only needed for insurance claims | |
Fraud, embezzlement or bad checks | Fraud is using deception to gain a financial or personal gain. Embezzlement is stealing or misappropriating money from another. Bad Checks is passing a check that one knows will not be honored due to lack of funds or forged signature | Examples include using false information to receive an item and may occur on e-commerce or other online websites or forging signatures, changing amounts or knowingly issue a check that the account holder knows does not have enough money to cover the amount. |
Credit Card Theft | Using another person’s credit card without their authorization. | Taking another person’s credit card or using their credit card to make purchases that they are not authorized to do. May occur on on-line websites. |
Shoplifting Under $1000 (when the victim has no knowledge what was actually stolen or the suspect is unknown and there is no vehicle information) | The act of knowingly taking goods from an establishment in which they are displayed for sale, without paying for them. | Concealing a store item on one’s person, in pockets, under clothes, or in a bag, and leaving the store without paying. |
Simple Assault (only when the victim knows the offender. Does not include domestic violence) | The striking or hitting another person and causing minor injuries such as complaint of pain, bruising, etc. | Hitting another with an open hand, closed fist or body part during a dispute. This does not include domestic violence incidents or occurring during a theft. |
