Robbery Prevention

A robbery prevention strategy can help you and your business reduce the likelihood of becoming a victim. Unlike burglary and theft, which are crimes against property, robbery is a crime against people.

Robbery is a crime that puts you, your employees and your customers in physical danger. In the U.S. alone, a commercial robbery is committed every four minutes. That's more than 100,000 robberies each year.

For your own safety and that of others, do not try to be a hero. Prevention strategies can be great deterrents to criminal behavior.

Follow These Robbery Prevention Tips:

• Place security signs and stickers on points of entry to serve as deterrents to robbery.
• Be sure you have adequate lighting both inside and outside your business.
• Exterior lighting should illuminate dark areas around your building and parking lots.
• Interior lighting should be adequate enough to allow people outside your business to see people inside.
• Install silent alarms to notify police and give them a better chance to catch perpetrators.
• Install some form of cash register protection.
• Install security cameras, which not only serve as a robbery prevention tactic, but help with identifying a robber after the robbery has been committed.
• Utilize a safe with a drop mechanism that allows you to make periodic drops during the day to minimize the amount of cash in your registers.
• Always drop large bills immediately and publicize this to discourage potential robbers.