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Title: Business Crime Prevention Program An Operational Overview


1
Business Crime Prevention Program An
Operational Overview
July 2006
2
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • Agenda
  • Program Description What is it?
  • Program Delivery 11 Steps
  • Program Package for Businesses
  • Essential Program Resources
  • Getting Prepared

3
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • What is it?
  • The Business Crime Prevention Program promotes
    education for small businesses on crime
    prevention tactics, and encourages businesses to
    work with police to prevent crime and report
    suspicious activities.
  • Community Police Centres provide an important
    link to businesses by providing them with
    practical crime prevention tools to combat
    criminal activity like theft, fraud, robberies
    and mischief.

4
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • Goals
  • Promote crime prevention awareness and activities
    to small businesses who have walk-in clientele
    and less than 20 employees.
  • Establish and maintain effective avenues of
    communication between commercial establishments
    and the police.
  • Provide leadership, support, guidance and
    assistance to owners of commercial establishments
    that express an interest in the Business Crime
    Prevention Program.
  • To empower small businesses that are expressing
    an interest, by providing them with information
    packages that can reduce opportunities for break
    and enter and related crimes on their property.

5
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • How does it work?
  • Community Police Centres provide an important
    link to businesses by providing them with a free
    package of crime fighting tools and resources to
    help combat criminal activity like theft, fraud,
    robberies and mischief.

6
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • Agenda
  • Program Description What is it?
  • Program Delivery 11 Steps
  • Program Package for Businesses
  • Essential Program Resources
  • Getting Prepared

7
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • Program Delivery 11 Steps
  • 1 Community Police Centre volunteers contact
    small business owner/manger through the Victim
    Assistance program, or by using promotional
    flyers.
  • 2 The Volunteer will offer to provide the Small
    Business Owner with printed materials pertinent
    to the program, giving emphasis to the material
    that best addresses the businesss initial
    concerns. Included in the materials will be the
    Volunteers business card , as well as the
    business card of the CPC Officer. The volunteer
    will make arrangements to deliver, mail or have
    the business owner/manager attend to pick up
    their crime prevention information package.

8
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • Program Delivery 11 Steps
  • 3 If the Business Crime Prevention package has
    been delivered or mailed to the business owner,
    the Volunteers should follow-up to ensure that
    there is an understanding of its contents, and
    how to use them.
  • 4 The Volunteer should be able to receive and
    answer inquiries about the Business Crime
    Prevention Program as a result of the Victim
    Assistance program or Business Crime Prevention
    Promotional Flyers.
  • 5 During all initial contacts with businesses,
    volunteers should be completing the Night
    Contact sheets (R26 forms) with interested
    businesses.

9
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • Program Delivery 11 Steps
  • 6 Volunteers should complete the Business Crime
    Prevention Log Sheet that outlines the material
    provided to the business owner, for filing at the
    CPC, and for regular reporting to the Crime
    Prevention Program Business Owner.
  • 7 Three months after the delivery of the Business
    Crime Prevention Program package, volunteers will
    call the business owner/manager to follow-up,
    using the 3-Month Survey, included in the program
    materials.

10
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • Program Delivery 11 Steps
  • 8 Businesses should be contacted yearly to update
    Night Contact sheets, identifying points of
    contact in off-business hours.
  • 9 Volunteers will work closely with the CPC
    Officer to identify crime trends, or Hot Spots
    in the area, and will promote timely awareness
    among businesses.
  • 10 Volunteers will create and distribute Business
    Crime Prevention Promotional Flyers to target
    businesses.
  • 11 Each CPC will be expected to provide the total
    number of Business contacts for monthly/annual
    report purposes.

11
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • Agenda
  • Program Description What is it?
  • Program Delivery 11 Steps
  • Program Package for Businesses
  • Essential Program Resources
  • Getting Prepared

12
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • Program Package for Businesses
  • Ottawa Police Service Business Crime Prevention
    Program Presentation Kit Folder shall contact the
    following items
  • Welcome/Introduction Letter
  • CPC Volunteer Business Card
  • CPC Officer Business Card
  • Height Strip
  • Business Crime Prevention Program Tip Booklet
  • Suspect Identity Chart with Robbery Prevention
    Information

13
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • Program Package for Businesses
  • Night Listing Information R26 Form
  • Graffiti pamphlet
  • Counterfeit Detection Posters
  • Counterfeit Detection Cards

14
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • Agenda
  • Program Description What is it?
  • Program Delivery 11 Steps
  • Program Package for Businesses
  • Essential Program Resources
  • Getting Prepared

15
Business Crime Prevention Program
  • Essential Program Resources
  • Victim Assistance Call Up Procedures
  • 3-Month Follow Up Survey
  • Promotional Flyer
  • Promotional Card/Bookmark
  • Program Package Checklist

16
Business Crime Prevention Program
  • Essential Program Resources
  • Bank Note of Canada Web Site
  • http//www.bank-banque-canada.ca/en/
  • Up to date counterfeit detection tips,
  • downloadable videos, training
  • presentations

17
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • Agenda
  • Program Description What is it?
  • Program Delivery 11 Steps
  • Program Package for Businesses
  • Essential Program Resources
  • Getting Prepared

18
Business Crime Prevention
Program
  • Getting Prepared
  • Review the program materials. Be prepared to
    identify and explain the program package to
    businesses.
  • Prepare program packages using the Business
    Program Package Checklist.
  • Outreach to the businesses using the promotional
    flyers.
  • Victim Assistance call backs to businesses who
    have been a victim of crime.

19
Business Crime Prevention Program Thank You
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