Crimestoppers UK and learnt about the Crimestoppers scheme, he saw it as a good opportunity to get the community involved in crime-fighting. Other areas around the UK also learned of Crimestoppers and took it up around this time but there was no national, co-ordinated approach. In 1985, PC Keith Blakelock was murdered during the riots at the Broadwater Farm Estate in London and the police appealed for information, stating that people knew who had been responsible but were frightened of coming forward. Michael Ashcroft (now Lord Ashcroft, KCMG and Chairman of the Trustees of Crimestoppers), a businessman, offered to provide the police
Martha Osamor, Baroness Osamor Youth Association Mothers' Project on the nearby Broadwater Farm housing estate. From 1986 to 1990 she served as a Labour Councillor representing the Bruce Grove Ward in the London Borough of Haringey. Following the Broadwater Farm riot Osamor and Dolly Kiffin organised the "first Civil Rights Demonstration ever held in Britain" on 3 October 1987 and produced a "Manifesto of the movement for civil rights and justice". She became a founding member of the Broadwater Farm Defence Campaign. Osamor was nominated by some branches within the Vauxhall Constituency Labour Party in the selection for a candidate at the by-election in