CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG POLICE

1. CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG POLICE Crime Prevention Seminar

2. Topics To Be Discussed • Crimes as they pertain to businesses • CPTED (crime prevention through environmental design) • Safety For Your Employees • Authority To Act • Ban List for unauthorized persons • Crime Free Leases • Crime Watch Program for businesses and apartments • Utilizing on site security through private company or CMPD off duty personal • Crime Mapping through CMPD website

3. Common Business Crimes • Larceny from Auto • Larceny of Auto • Robbery from business • Till tap from cash register • Breaking and Entering • Larceny by Employee • Domestic Violence • Industry Espionage • Fraud cases involving stolen credit cards • Thefts of merchandise from stores

4. Larceny from/Larceny of Auto • SECURE YOUR VALUABLES • REMOVE PACKAGES AND CELL PHONES FROM YOUR VEHICLE • HIDE EXPENSIVE STEREO SYSTEMS • REPORT SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY • OUT OF SIGHT IS OUT OF MIND • DO NOT HIDE A SPARE KEY • USE THEFT PREVENTION DEVICES IE. “THE CLUB” • LOCK YOUR DOORS AND ROLL UP THE WINDOWS • TAKE YOUR KEYS WITH YOU • NEVER LEAVE YOUR CAR RUNNING AND UNATTENDED

5. NOW THE THIEF CAN GET IN YOUR GARAGE OR HOUSE THIS GUY WAS THINKING WHAT WAS SHE THINKING?? THIS OWNER JUST FILLED UP HIS TAHOE FOR THE THIEF TO DRIVE FOR A WEEK!!!!

6. Now You See It…Now You Don’t

7. Prototype Theft Deterrent System

9. ALTERNATIVE VEHICLE THEFT PREVENTION

10. Robbery Prevention • Make sure that visibility into your business is unobstructed by signs and displays • Use low display counters to keep lines of sight throughout the business • Set up a central cashier area from which all sections can be viewed • Test all alarms on a regular basis to make sure they work • Ensure there is adequate lighting both inside and outside • Call the police when you observe any suspicious persons • Encourage co-workers to follow safety and prevention tips

11. Robbery Prevention (cont.) • Keep small amounts of cash on hand • Post signs on large bills policy and safe access policy • Keep emergency phone numbers posted beside the phone • When customers enter greet them courteously, make eye contact • Don’t establish a routine time or route of travel when making bank deposits • Keep rear doors locked • Inspect restrooms and other area before closing time, stay alert while opening and closing • Make sure that cameras are always in good working condition • Make sure that employees know how to use the panic alarm Button for hold ups . • Know your staff and have regular on site security meetings with your community officers .

12. Breaking and Entering • Carefully screen employees before hiring • Watch for anyone suspicious loitering nearby • Maintain an updated alarm contact list • Install adequate lighting inside and out • Remove any potential roof access • Maintain an adequate key control system • Keep a minimum amount of money on hand • Remove potential projectiles from doors and windows • Encourage renters to have rental insurance • Make sure that all alarms are activated at closing each night

13. Larceny by Employee/Employee Theft • Screen employees before hiring • http://www.charmeck.org/Departments/MCSO/Home.htm • Install a camera system in sensitive areas • Supervision • Let your employees know what you expect from them at the first interview • Address all employee concerns quickly and in a private setting

14. Domestic Violence - Maintain adequate business access control - Refer employees to appropriate help agencies Police (911) Shelter for Battered women (704-332-2513) Magistrate (704-347-7844) Legal Services of Southern Piedmont (704-376-1600) Industry Espionage -Think before talking about job details in public place -Know who is on the other line before giving out sensitive company information -Garbage control/Paper shredding -Protect identification and access badges -Control access to administrative documents Domestic Violence/Industry Espionage

15. CRIME TRIANGLE REMOVING ANY ONE SIDE OF THIS TRIANGLE WILL PREVENT THE NEXT CRIME

16. REPORTSUSPICIOUSACTIVITY!!!!CALL 911

17. WHAT IS SUSPICIOUS? • PERSONS LOITERING, WITHOUT APPARENT PURPOSE IE. PEEPING INTO CAR WINDOWS • PERSONS THAT ARE TRYING TO HIDE THEIR IDENTITY • OCCUPIED / PARKED VEHICLES AT UNUSUAL HOURS OR LOCATION • SLOW MOVING VEHICLES, ESPECIALLY WITH LIGHTS OFF

18. 311 Vs 911 • 911 is used for all calls that require police officer presence such as a call for breaking and entering and robberies . Officers respond to auto thefts , domestic violence and incidents of assaults. • 311 is used for reports of code violations , and reports that don’t require an officers presence such as a report of a larceny from auto . • You may also make reports on line using the www.cmpd.org website . These are reports of damage to property , harassing calls and other minor incidents .

19. OVERVIEW • USE COMMON SENSE • THINK LIKE THE PERPETRATOR • PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR BUSINESS • BE A GOOD WITNESS BY REMEMBERING DETAILS • IF IT DOESN’T SEEM RIGHT IT PROBABLY ISN’T… DIAL 911 !!!!!

20. CPTED Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

21. Making Simple Changes to Address Major Issues • The Four Strategies of CPTED • 1. Natural Surveillance - A design concept directed primarily at keeping intruders easily observable. Promoted by features that maximize visibility of people, parking areas and building entrances: doors and windows that look out on to streets and parking areas; pedestrian-friendly sidewalks and streets; front porches; adequate nighttime lighting. 2. Territorial Reinforcement - Physical design can create or extend a sphere of influence. Users then develop a sense of territorial control while potential offenders, perceiving this control, are discouraged. Promoted by features that define property lines and distinguish private spaces from public spaces using landscape plantings, pavement designs, gateway treatments, and "CPTED" fences. 3. Natural Access Control - A design concept directed primarily at decreasing crime opportunity by denying access to crime targets and creating in offenders a perception of risk. Gained by designing streets, sidewalks, building entrances and neighborhood gateways to clearly indicate public routes and discouraging access to private areas with structural elements. 4. Target Hardening - Accomplished by features that prohibit entry or access: window locks, dead bolts for doors, interior door hinges. Presented along with each of these CPTED strategies are guidelines which, as a homeowner, builder or remodeler, you can apply to reduce the fear and in and incidence of crime and improve the quality of life.

23. Good Practice of maintaining your own property

24. Final Comments Banning unwanted persons from your property CMPD works with property managers and leasing agents to ban suspects that commit criminal activity on private property . Once that person is banned he or she is prohibited from returning to your complex and may be arrested for this violation.

25. Authority To Act As Agent • CMPD with the assistance of the police attorney have formed through out the Charlotte Mecklenburg region a partnership with businesses to act as agents after normal business hrs. This allows officers to zone check the business to ensure that no one trespassing and comments crimes on the property

26. Form that must be notarized

27. Safety and Crime Prevention is Everyone’s Responsibility • Take Part in your own Crime Watch Program at home and work • Get to know your neighbors . • Practice safe habits such as removing valuables from your auto at all times • Use the alarm system at your residence and work location • Don’t look the other way when you see a crime take place , take the time to call 911 • Maintain your property by making sure that all lights work and the camera system works at all times. • Use Crime Free Leasing as a routine practice for all tenants

28. Crime Mapping Everything that you wanted to know but were afraid to ask!

29. Questions?