Oceanside Security and Patrol Inc.

Your Priority Is Our Specialtity

Loss prevention in retail stores needs to be a pillar of your security plan, especially with criminal activity increasing each year. When criminals can run rampant around your storefront, you’ll lose merchandise, cash, and reliable customers.

Work with a security team that understands the intricacies of loss prevention.

Cover All Bases With Your Business

Our Oceanside Professional Security team is fully trained in the art of loss prevention in retail sites, with expertise spanning shrinkage reduction principles all the way to non-violent communication and resolutions. We’ll work with your site whatever its size, customizing a security and stock-tracking plan to ensure maximum coverage of your goods

The Vitality of Loss Prevention

  • Retail-related crime cost Canadian businesses around $5 billion a year
  • Small independent businesses are especially vulnerable to this sort of crime
  • 90 percent of independent businesses report at least one theft EVERY DAY

With these statistics, it’s clear that having a strong loss prevention strategy in place — with the team to back it up — has never been more vital or important to your day-to-day operations.

What to Expect from Your Security Team

  • Retail Theft Prevention - Ensuring criminals don’t make it out with stolen goods
  • Report Writing - Thoroughly recorded accounts of criminal instances for review
  • Access Point Control - Safeguarding the entrance and exit of your store
  • Discreet Observation - Keeping an eye on potential threats inconspicuously
  • Non-Violent Intervention - Stepping in when necessary without using violence
  • First Aid Responses - Rushing to help in the case of injuries
  • Frontline Responses - Stepping forward in any emergency situation
  • Maintain Public Order - Ensuring that the store doesn’t devolve into chaos
  • Preventing Internal Theft - Keeping an eye on existing or new staff members
  • Monitoring CCTV - Making sure all your monitors are viewed at all times
  • Case-Building - Helping to prosecute repeat offenders

The Five Steps of Probable Cause

We follow these five steps strictly before apprehending a shoplifter, ensuring that the right people are caught at the right time

  • 1 Selection - Seeing the suspect select their item or item
  • 2 Concealment - Witnessing said suspect hiding the item on their person
  • 3 Continuity - Watching the suspect continuously with the stolen item
  • 4 Bypass Point-Of-Sale - Seeing the suspect passing the checkout counter
  • 5 Exit - Watching the suspect leave the premises with the merchandise

Get in touch now!

Our goal is to make our customers feel safe. We focus on providing value.

testimonials

Overall, I was impressed with the teams look, and attitude. Everyone was ready, willing and able to complete all tasks put before them. My only suggestion is keep doing what it is you are doing. This was my 1st event of this type, with the help of your staff, we ran a great, safe, secure, and efficient operation from every aspect.

Sonia B. Vancouver Island