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• Check Forgery: When someone makes copies or fakes of checks—or tries to use a stolen, forged, fake, or altered check—to get cash or buy things.
• Counterfeit or Other Forgery: When someone makes copies or fakes of money, money orders, identification, official documents, lottery tickets, event tickets, or offers counterfeit goods for sale.
• Debit Card or Credit Card Fraud: When someone tries to make a purchase in a store or online with a financial card that does not belong to them, or obtains credit or debit card information that does not belong to them.
• Fraud: When someone uses wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain. Ordering food and not paying for it, tricking someone into a scam, and using someone else’s government benefits are all examples of fraud.
• Identity Theft: When someone fraudulently acquires another person’s private identifying information and tries to use it to commit fraud, usually for financial gain.

If you want to report another kind of fraud or financial crime, or if you have questions about your situation, just get in touch.

• Burglary of a Detached Garage: When someone you don’t know steals property from your free-standing garage or damages it. If the garage is attached to your house, don’t use the online form—call us instead.
• Breach of Trust of a Motor Vehicle: When someone violates an agreement, contract, or obligation to return a vehicle that does not belong to them after being permitted to use it for a period of time.
• Damage to Property: When someone intentionally damages, destroys or defaces public or private property that you own. If the damage results from a vehicle, don’t use the online form—call us instead.
• Lost Property: When your property is missing or lost.
• Theft: When any items of value are stolen from you, without a threat of violence or entering a building without permission. If the threat involved a threat of violence, or if someone broke in, don’t use the online form—call us instead.
• Theft from an Auto: When property has been stolen from a vehicle you own. This includes parts or accessories attached to the exterior or interior of the vehicle. If license plates or firearms were stolen, or the whole vehicle, don’t use the online form—call us instead.

If you want to report another kind of property crime, or if you have questions about your situation, just get in touch.

• Harassing Phone Calls: When you receive unwanted phone calls of an annoying, harassing or threatening nature, and you do not know who is calling. If someone you know is making threats against you, or if you are reporting a violation of some type of restraining order or harassment order, don’t use the online form—call us instead.
• Illegal Dumping: When rubbish, waste material, refuse, garbage, trash, debris, or other items have been dumped onto your property.
• Information Report: When you would like to share information with police, but there is no suspect information and the incident occurred in the past.

If you want to report another kind of incident, or if you have questions about your situation, just get in touch.

Call the SPPD Records Unit at 651-266-5700. We will be able to answer most questions or put you in touch with the right people.

If the incident you need to report does not meet the criteria for online reporting, you can still file a police report by having an officer come to you, or by visiting a police station. Learn how.

If you do not feel safe right now, call or text 911. Otherwise, an officer needs to document the text messages you have received in person. Report what is happening by calling us or visiting a police station, not online. 

SPPD can only take police reports about incidents that happened within City limits. If you incident happened elsewhere, contact the police department that serves that area. 

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• To report an incident on an interstate freeway, call the Minnesota State Patrol at 651-201-7100.
• To report an incident at MSP Airport, call the Airport Police Department at 612-726-5577.

A crime is motivated by bias when the victim believes the offender was motivated to commit the act based upon the victim’s perceived race, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Report crimes motivated by bias by calling us or visiting a police station, not online. 

Learn More About Crimes of Bias or Hate

A police officer needs to come and investigate the activity while it is happening.

• Please call 911 if anyone is in danger. If not, call our non-emergency number: 651-291-1111.
• You can also use this form to file a complaint with the City.

A police officer needs to come and investigate firearm-related incidents in person. Please call 911 if the incident just happened. If it happened a while ago, call our non-emergency number: 651-291-1111.

Every police report is an official record, and it can’t be canceled or withdrawn. But if you have new information to report, please tell us! (For example, you might have found an item you reported stolen.)

• If an investigator has been assigned to you, please contact that person and tell them what has changed.
• If you filed your report online, please email the new information to OnlineReports@ci.stpaul.mn.us.
• Or call our Records Unit at 651-266-5700.