In-store crime events don’t start there … and often don’t end there. To better prevent and handle crime, the LPRC INNOVATE advisory panel, along with the University of Florida and our research team, creates a series of theft, fraud, and violence scenarios.

We deploy focused sensors, connections, protection tools, and a contextual decision support platform to learn to collaborate, integrate, test, and continually improve crime and loss handling across offenders’ journeys to harm using the Five Zones of Influence from the bow tie model.

As a participant at INTEGRATE, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in the retail theft prevention process. Together, we’ll:

Detect
We identify solutions that will detect potential suspects to understand and prepare for potential risks.

Disrupt
Next, we identify solutions that disrupt potential suspects to prevent a crime event from occurring and protect people and products.

Document
Finally, we identify solutions that document potential suspects to reduce uncertainty in the local environment and identify risks.

The goal of INTEGRATE is to improve crime reduction by leveraging integrated technologies across a criminal offender’s journey to and from a crime event.

The 2024 theme is Active Assailant: Exercise in the Swamp. Retailers and law enforcement will be collaborating to dive deep into active shooter events. We’ll explore big questions such as:

• Can technology predict an active shooter event?
• What is your role left of the event, at the event, and right of the event?
• How can retail personnel best manage this kind of situation?
• How can everyone involved help the victims?

We’ll watch a simulated event together, analyze it, and discuss it. Then each participant will create an emergency “go bag” they can give to law enforcement officers.

Thriving, healthy communities require safety and stability. Crime, as well as the fear of crime victimization, causes physical and psychological harm to people and their loved ones. Only when people feel secure in their surroundings — including the places they shop — can they fully participate in and enjoy everyday activities such as commerce and leisure.

LPRC is taking significant steps toward creating safer spaces for citizens, merchants, and law enforcement. Through INTEGRATE and other events, our team provides opportunities to engage face to face with implementing, testing, and improving retail theft prevention solutions that make a real difference.