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Hotel/Motel
Bars/Nightclubs         
Shoplifting           
Parking Lots/Garages

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For more information about industry-specific security issues, select from the links below.

Hospitality — Hotels and Motels

From the earliest times, thieves and robbers often subjected travelers to attacks. Outside of walled cities and castles travelers could find shelter and protection only in wayside inns. From this practice grew the principle that innkeepers were responsible for providing their guests not only food and lodging, but also security and protection against criminal attack …

Hospitality — Bars, Taverns and Nightclubs

It is … the service of alcoholic beverages, that tends to lessen or remove inhibitions in many people, which is the frequent cause of problems …

Hospitality — Restaurant, including Fast Food (QSR) [Coming soon]

Retail: Stores, Shopping Centers and Malls — Security [Coming soon]

Retail: Shoplifting — Detention and Use of Force

Each year shoplifting incidents cost retail merchants in the United States well over $10 billion (estimated in losses. For the many stores operating on narrow profit margins, those shoplifting losses can mean the difference between survival and bankruptcy…

Parking Lot and Garage Security

Security professionals have long known that locations where people and their valuables are together — such as in parking lots and garages — are favorite targets of criminals …

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