What is the NCIS Text & Web Tip Hot Line?
The TEXT & WEB TIP HOT LINE is a partnership between NCIS and the military community and is intended to provide a discreet and completely ANONYMOUS conduit to receive criminal information that helps identify and address criminal and force protection threats within the USN and USMC.
What type of information does NCIS need?
The NCIS mission is to investigate and defeat criminal, terrorist, and foreign intelligence threats to the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Types of crimes investigated by NCIS include rape, narcotics, child physical and sexual abuse, burglary and robbery, theft of government and personal property, fraud, and homicide. Within the Department of the Navy, NCIS also has exclusive investigative jurisdiction into actual, potential or suspected acts of espionage or sabotage. If you have information pertaining to these or any other serious crime, please let us know.
How do I submit a tip?
The two ways to provide anonymous information to NCIS is either by web or cellular text.
Anonymous Web Based Tips
Click the icon below to submit a web tip and to follow up on a previously submitted tip.
Anonymous Text Tips
To send a text tip to NCIS follow these steps:
1. Text to 274637 (CRIMES)
2. Type "NCIS" at the beginning of your text message.
3. Type your message including as much detail as possible to ensure the tips can effectively be investigated.
4. You will receive a text with an alias code—This will be your tipster identity code.
In the case of emergency, please call 9-1-1
Tips submitted by text message are encrypted, entirely
confidential, completely anonymous and are immediately
processed by NCIS.
Thanks for helping to make the USN/USMC safer!