Retail theft and robbery are rising. Hear practical ways to deter incidents, improve documentation, strengthen response, and protect your business. Listen now.

Hi and welcome to the Guardian Way.

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Today's episode, episode 120, deals

with the private security solutions

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that can be in place

to help reduce retail theft and robbery.

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Our co-producer

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for the series, of course, Garrett Thomas,

founder of Guardian Protection Force.

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Good morning Garrett.

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Good morning.

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Yeah.

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You know, we put in there

retail theft and robbery, unfortunately.

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Robbery is becoming more and more common

in retail situations.

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People are getting brazen.

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And of course, as everybody knows, retail

theft is a real big issue.

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Yes. Well, okay.

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Well, Garrett,

why don't you take a few minutes here

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and, and clue our audience in on

some of the different elements

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that go into the types of security that,

that that, like, Guardian could provide.

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Yeah.

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One of the things to consider

is the visual deterrence.

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What visual deterrents are you employing?

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That will reduce these opportunistic

thefts or opportunistic robberies?

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For example, do you have

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does it appear to have an easy

get in and get out?

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Does it appear to have, nobody watching?

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Does it appear to have,

you know, uniformed guards?

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Present?

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So that's something to consider

is, you know,

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just the optics in itself,

real time theft intervention.

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Do you have any team that's able

to intervene when that happens?

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Intervene on any in any sense?

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Are they able to check for the receipts,

or are they able to apprehend what is it

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that they're able to do?

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Robbery prevention through presence

and protocol.

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So, you know, for example,

that could be some of the customer service

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based, you know, approaches, you know,

excuse me, sir, how can I help you?

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Are you looking for something?

That kind of thing.

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These protocols of,

you know, when this happens, you do this

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improved loss prevention monitoring.

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This is really important.

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A lot of times, people

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put, processes in place

and they don't monitor the effectiveness.

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They don't monitor,

you know, how many thefts they had before,

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how many thefts they had afterwards,

what was stolen?

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What wasn't stolen.

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So you need to, monitor

that to, to be able to create,

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new protocols and, account for how,

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valuable were your measures?

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Incident documentation

and evidence collection?

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Just like the one before.

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This one is very under utilized.

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You need to document all of these things

documented so that you can now.

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Six oh, two people, meaning trespassing.

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So they can't come back and steal more.

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That's one that's very helpful,

especially in the state of California,

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is trespass.

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But if you don't do your documentation,

it's going to be very difficult to do it.

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Fantastic. Great. Garrett.

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Well, listen, as we wrap up this episode,

why don't you take our audience

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through some of the different services

that Guardian provides

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and then sign us off until we meet again

next week?

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Yes, absolutely.

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The no fee site assessment,

workplace violence prevention,

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eye care solutions, garden patrol

services, armed and unarmed

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security operations plans and assessments,

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continuous termination services

and executive protection.

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Well, until next

time, stay safe and we'll see you then.