It involves training employees to recognize and report suspicious persons and criminal activity in the workplace, and to use proven crime prevention techniques to maintain a safe work environment. Areas with active crime watches have reported dramatic reductions in crime and fear of crime. Criminals feed on apathy. Law enforcement needs the cooperation and support of employees to make the work environment safe. Workplace burglary is one of the easiest crimes to commit, the hardest to prove, and the easiest to prevent.
Domestic Violence knows no boundaries.
It occurs most often in the home, but frequently spills over into the workplace. More than 2 million people a year were victims of actual or threatened violent crime in the workplace in 1992 through 1996, a U.S. Department of Justice study shows. Of those, about 1,000 a year were killed. Criminals tend to seek out uninvolved workplaces to commit their crimes.