Crime prevention check list for businesses
Remind employees to be aware of suspicious persons and activity.
Businesses are constantly being targeted by criminals in ingenious ways.
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Here is what business owners can do to prevent becoming targets:
• Remind employees to be aware of suspicious persons and activity, e.g. occupied vehicles in unusual locations, people photographing or diagramming your facility, and telephone calls seeking suspicious information.
• Challenge any unfamiliar persons in or near your work areas. If they do not appear threatening, engage them in conversation about what they are doing, whom they work for, what their names are, etc.
• Ensure that all security and video systems are operating and in good working order.
• Consider deploying security personnel to areas of high visibility and/ or public access, e.g., public entrances, front desk areas, public-gathering points, etc.
• Increase scrutiny of public parking lots and vehicles.
• Consider reducing vehicle access to areas close to buildings.
• Be aware of any packages that are abandoned and/ or appear to be suspicious.
• Obtain identification from everybody doing business at your facility.
• Secure uniforms, employee identification, company vehicles or other items that might be stolen or replicated and used to circumvent security measures.
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