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Top Crime Prevention Tips for Business
Never leave a laptop computer anywhere in
your car. Even if it is out of sight in the boot. Gangs
of thieves sit in car parks and watch while business people put
their laptops in the boots of their cars.
Lap top theft is the most common crime affecting
business and has reached epidemic proportions. There is a thriving
market for stolen laptops, which change hands for a good price
and are therefore irresistible to criminals.
Always use blinds and/or mirror glass on
the ground floor of office buildings to lessen the likelihood
of “crash and bash” opportunistic crime where criminals
break a window, snatch the computers and make off within minutes
before the police have time to respond. This is even more important
on industrial estates, which are quiet and isolated at evenings
and weekends and where CCTV cameras will not yield useful evidence
if the criminals wear masks.
Consider the office layout and where possible
put the most valuable items further out of reach on the first
floor.
Train staffs about the dangers of “tailgating”
where someone without a valid security pass will drive through
the security gates behind the car in front. If you don’t
recognise them, challenge them or tell Security. Tailgating criminals
are often very plausible and come in smart cars with a brief-case
and a pin-stripe suit. Once into the building they will steal
unattended wallets and handbags.
Fit car park security barriers and use them
so that at night and at weekends it is impossible to draw up a
big van at the back of the building to load up unseen.
If you want a Crime prevention officer to visit
to give a crime prevention talk telephone 01442 271000
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