Commercial Burglary Prevention Tips

Detective Darren Posey (Burglary): We're seeing definitely a trend to commercial burglaries. Obviously with a lot of people not at the businesses during what would be their regular hours as well as after hours, what we're finding is people are at home, so our residential burglaries aren't as dramatic of a situation at this point in time. What we'd like to get across or have people do especially our community members that own businesses, we really think that this would be a great time to take an assessment of your property and see how you can better secure it. If you don't normally do inventories of your equipment or retail property, this would be a good time to maybe do that and see how you can better secure it. We think that if you're going to be closed for a lengthy period of time or you have reduced hours in your business, to remove valuables from the storefront as much as possible. We found that small electronics, cash registers, phones, bank bags and other valuable items of inventory that are in view from the outside provide a motive for people who are interested in illegal intentions. Removing those things might be a good thing to do at this point in time.