Stop Shoplifters!

What’s happening with retail security? As you all know I worked in security of all kinds for many years, some of it in retail, undercover for fraud and some in charge of store detectives. I can’t understand how these thieves that openly walk in and fill their bags, with security, staff and the public just watching them do it and letting them leave. Watching these videos makes me feel really angry. When I was doing that work, no one got away. We might have let some old ladies and kids off but the real thieves were always stopped, we had … Continue reading Stop Shoplifters!

My Security Work

I was laying in bed last night trying to remember all the security work I’d done and couldn’t do dates or even in order but this is what I could remember after I left the Fire Brigade in ‘71: Group 4 had just arrived in the U.K. and I went from ‘beat officer’ to staff sergeant in charge of all Cash In Transit at the time also getting my HGV to drive the big ‘dustcart’ type wagons and had some near misses as ‘blagging’ cash vans was very common at the time. Woolworths doing plainclothes and undercover fraud work also … Continue reading My Security Work