- Keep your front
doors and windows clear of signs and posters to allow good, two way
visibility. Employees can see suspicious persons outside. Passers-by
and police can see inside.
- Keep the outside of
your business well lit at night.
- Make sure your cash
register area is clearly visible to outside observers.
- Practice good cash
control. Keep a minimum amount in your cash drawer and make regular
drops into a safe.
- Advertise outside
that you keep a minimal amount of cash in the register and that you
will not accept large bills.
- Don't keep large
bills under the cash drawer. If you don't have a safe, find a less
obvious place to hide your extra cash until you go to the bank.
- Use a safe that the
clerk cannot open alone or that requires two keys. Post that fact conspicuously,
including on the safe itself.
- Use video camera
surveillance and make it well known.
- Always have at
least two clerks working at night.
- Vary your banking
routine. Carry cash in a variety of ways - a lunch sack, attaché
case, flight bag, pocket, etc. Money bags ar pretty obvious.
- Vary the times and
routes that you use to go to the bank.
- Make deposits as
often as possible, never less than once a day.
- Be alert for
"customers" who seem to be loitering or glancing around the
store while appearing to shop or browse through a magazine.
- Watch for
suspicious persons outside the business - especially in parked cars
and around telephone booths.
- If you see someone
who is acting suspicious inside or outside, call the police to have
them checked out.
- Two persons should
be on hand at opening and closing times.
- At opening time,
one person should enter the store and check to see if it has been
disturbed.
- Before closing, one
person should check the office, back rooms and rest rooms to make sure
no one is hiding inside.
- Keep side and back
doors locked. Have employees use the main entrance, if possible.
- Place markers at
the main entrance that employees can use to help gauge the height of a
robber as he leaves.
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