Retail Security and Loss Prevention

ISBN-13: 9780230006812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 288 str.

Read Hayes

Opis

Retail Security and Loss Prevention is an invaluable and comprehensive publication that provides cutting-edge asset protection processes. Based on twenty-five years of systematic research and field experience, it is designed to provide loss prevention managers, store managers, and retail and security students with a powerful problem-solving resource. It describes the most common retail crime and loss problems along with a step-by-step process for diagnosing and treating these problems. Included are several loss prevention checklists as well as sample forms.

Spis treści

Introduction PART 1: RETAIL RISKS: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS Employee Theft Managing Employee Honesty Vendor Theft and Error Controlling Cargo Theft Shoplifting Point-of-Sale Risks Miscellaneous Risks PART 2: IDENTIFYING AND PRIORITiZING RISKS Security Surveys Data Analysis PART 3: DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING PREVENTION PROGRAMS Loss Prevention Program Design People Programs Security Systems Selecting Protection Equipment and Services Sample Protection Program Implementing the Program TESTING AND FOLLOW-UP OF THE LOSS CONTROL PROGRAMS Auditing and Follow-Up Inventories The Future

O autorze

READ HAYES has been a Security Researcher and Consultant since 1984. He has over 28 years' hands-on crime and loss control experience with numerous organizations worldwide, including Target, Home Depot, Bloomingdales, Coles Meyer, Disney, Proctor and Gamble and Wal-mart. A co-ordinator of the Loss Prevention Research Team at the University of Florida and Director of the retailer-supplier coalition Loss Prevention Research Council, his current research focuses on offender decision-making, total supply chain protection, asset and key product protection and premises violence, security and safeness. He is the author of over 60 articles and three books including Retail Security and Loss Prevention.