Acquiring Control using  MINIMAL PERCEIVED FORCE

SP709                  28 Minutes

NEW for 2004 

 APPLICATION: To orient officers and other staff to the scope and impact of theft in hospitals.

The hospital security officer is a primary player in the process of reducing theft from the hospital, its employees and patients. If the individual officer is to make a significant contribution to minimizing opportunity and increasing risk for the thief, that officer needs to understand the dynamics of theft and the behaviors of the thief.

This videotape examines the scope of the employee theft problem. It examines who steals, what is stolen, from whom and how successful theft occurs. Emphasis is placed on ways to reduce opportunities to steal and making theft a very risky undertaking at the particular hospital. On completion of training, the officers should be able to:

State an approximate per bed dollar loss due to theft.

Describe the "entitlement rationalization".

State places to hide stolen property within the hospital.

Describe how thieves can be made to feel that the risk of being caught is greater  than the gain to be had from the stolen property.

Describe seasonal variations in theft and state what causes these variations.

Identify places outside the hospital building where property may be temporarily hidden.

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