The phrase "acted on tips" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to actions taken based on advice or information received from others.
Example: "The detective acted on tips from informants to solve the case."
Alternatives: "followed leads" or "responded to suggestions".
Less than twenty-four hours later, a manhunt by the BART police ended when officers acted on a tip and apprehended John Lee Cowell, a twenty-seven-year-old white parolee.
It denied it had been on a "fishing expedition" because it had acted on tip off from politicians and the public.
They often act on tips whose sources are opaque, without knowing what lies behind them.
Gutierrez told the Times that ICE agents should not act on tips from abusers.
Acting on tips from large drug companies, federal officials devised a plan to stop him from doing the same in the United States.
"The S.E.C. could have uncovered the Ponzi scheme well before Madoff confessed" in 2008, according to Mr. Kotz's report, which detailed the agency's failure to act on tips about Mr. Madoff's multibillion-dollar fraud.
Several politicians echoed those words again on Friday, noting that failures to act on tips about Mr. Cruz undermined years of effort to make the public part of the crime-fighting process.
At Madoff Hearing, Lawmakers Lay Into S.E.C. WASHINGTON — Securities regulators could not cool the white-hot Congressional fury on Wednesday over their failure to act on tips that might have exposed the Madoff scandal almost a decade ago.
In addition to lengthy reports documenting the S.E.C.'s failure to act on tips that the investment firms of Bernard L. Madoff and R. Allen Stanford may have been running huge frauds, Mr. Kotz also exposed more than 30 S.E.C. employees, including more than a dozen senior officers, who had been using their workdays and government computers to regularly visit Internet pornography sites.
