Tag: loss prevention certifications
The Walgreens Loss Prevention Strategy Challenges Legacy Thinking
Tim Belka is the senior director of global security at Walgreens. Belka began his career as a US deputy marshal before joining the Central...
3 Ways to Maintain the Value of Your Video Investments
Video surveillance is often at the heart of loss prevention strategies designed to address causes of shrinkage. Whether a retailer is taking aim at shoplifting, employee theft, returns fraud, tag switching, or sweethearting, a video solution can usually help.
Making It Easier to Get It Right
Navigating the asset protection responsibilities at the world’s largest retailer requires patience, perspective, partnerships, and outstanding leadership. Mike Lamb, LPC, is the vice president...
Certification Has Tremendous Benefits for Law Enforcement
Mitzi Perry, LPQ, has been an investigator at the St. Petersburg (Florida) Police Department since 1999. In 2001, she was assigned to the auto...
Perspectives from Practitioners
We try to always write the articles in this magazine from the perspective of the loss prevention practitioner. Apart from the columns written by...
Test, Do, Learn, and Share
Over the years, enterprise needs for supply-chain asset protection (SCAP) have undergone a transformation from lock-and-key security operations to more integrated supply-chain security and...
Building an Unbreakable LP–IT Bond
Listening to loss prevention leaders discuss their relationships with information technology (IT) departments and offer advice for strengthening them can seem a bit like...
I Missed My Calling
A good friend of mine once said that a conference is “an organized way of postponing a decision.” I have stood in front of...
The Year Ahead in LP
These are clearly turbulent times in retail. How people shop is changing—and with it the strategies employed to attract and retain customers. Store technology...
Neiman Marcus’ Gary Manson Remembered by Colleagues
The loss prevention industry lost one its strongest leaders with the passing of Gary Manson on February 17 at MD Anderson Cancer Center in...