Understanding and Preventing Retail Theft

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The Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS) is pleased to announce “Understanding and Preventing Retail Theft" training.

Description:

This course examines current trends and methods leading to the increase in retail theft, both externally and internally. Through a multimedia presentation and practical exercises, the instructor helps attendees fully understand retail theft and the methods to prevent and detect it. Armed with this knowledge, law enforcement and loss prevention practitioners will be empowered to address specific commonplace crimes with proven techniques. Participants will also be prepared to apply prevention techniques to future trends and to present short topical versions of this training to their associates or business partners. 

 A visit to a retail environment to identify vulnerabilities and indicators of theft will be conducted as part of this course.

This course provides short, blank, customizable PowerPoint presentations for participants to customize with graphics and conduct short 15-30 minute seminars for the business community on various topics. Other handout material is also included to enhance instruction and understanding of retail theft. 

Topics Covered:     

• Understanding crime prevention approaches to retail theft

• External theft methods, detection, and prevention

• Fraud credit cards, chargeback, returns, gift cards, etc.

• Cargo theft

• Vendor theft

• Internal theft methods, detection, and prevention

• Fraud-employee, cashier, stock room staff, etc.

• Shoplifting today

• Self-checkout (SCO) theft

• Organized retail crime (ORC)

 Who should attend:   

This training is beneficial for any law enforcement staff tasked with providing crime prevention services to the retail business community, as well as for retail staff concerned with or tasked with addressing retail theft. While this is not an investigations class, this information will also aid investigators of retail theft. 

 Partial In-service Credit:

Partial in-service credit (PIC) will be provided to Virginia law enforcement officers.

Travel, Lodging, and Meals:

Participants are responsible for their transportation, lodging, and meal expenses.  

Training Details:

Check-in will begin at 7:30 am.

Training begins at 8:00 am and concludes at 5:00 pm each day.

Cost and Registration:

There is no registration fee for this course; however, pre-registration is required.

Please note that the DCJS registration system does not have the capacity to sort eligible from ineligible registrants. Therefore, anyone who registers will receive a confirmation. It is the responsibility of the DCJS-assigned course coordinator to review the roster and make a final determination on acceptance into the course. Denied registrants will be notified via the email address provided during registration.