Benefits

Before LeadsOnline, law enforcement had a hard time investigating crimes.

• First there was the time–wasting task of visiting all the area businesses to collect hundreds of transaction tickets.
• Then came the mind–numbing ritual of manually entering those tickets into a database. (Even if officers collected the info on diskettes, they found the data from different stores required individual handling by their IT staff.)
• By the time the data was available in their in–house system, it was often severely outdated.
• As the number of records grew, searching through stacks of reports was like finding a needle in a haystack.
• By the way, to beat the “system”, all the crooks had to do was sell stolen property online or in a business other than a pawnshop, or just step across the jurisdictional boundary.
• There were backlogs of data stored in boxes and closets across the country, legions of frustrated investigators, and hordes of frustrated crime victims waiting for justice.

Detectives had a choice — ignore this source of investigative information, or give up on getting home in time for dinner.

LeadsOnline has the solution.

Good news! Now cases that would never have been workable before can be solved instantly!

• LeadsOnline is up–to–date. Most agencies are backlogged anywhere from 2 weeks to 6 months.
• LeadsOnline is an all–electronic system. Agencies no longer hand-enter tickets, unless they just want to.
• LeadsOnline is nationwide. Because crooks aren’t polite enough to sell where they think you can look.
• LeadsOnline is accurate. Transaction information is entered once, at the source, and then is automatically checked for errors. We’re sticklers.
• LeadsOnline is more comprehensive. It’s no more trouble and no more cost to include ALL pawnshops and secondhand stores, and to bring all authorized detectives online. So odds of catching the crook increase dramatically.

Other Benefits

• Stop meth makers from buying pseudoephedrine in your town with MethMonitor
• Work cases of online fraud using our eBay First Responder Service
• Stop destructive metal theft in your community with LeadsOnline Metal Theft Investigations System.