Captain,
Does the tipline system undergo regular audits? For example...An officer randomly calls in a tip while acting as a sportsman-without revealing their ID. That tip is then followed through the system until it is passed of to an officer in the field as a completed circle.

I have seen a couple of occasions on this board where it has been said that multiple calls were made to the tipline and only one had been registered in the computer system. I have also seen that one post on this board can yield results. The more recent crab poacher post and the clowns fishing the resevoir are good examples of this. What this tells me is that when ENCON sees a post here and passes along that information it gets followed up on. It does not appear to be the same scenario with the tipline. Even though there is a more direct line of communication(verbally) made through the tipline the information appears to be getting lost in the shuffle. The tipline seems to have some inadequacies if all calls have actually been placed and everything stated is on the up and up.