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Smash and grab robberies continue to be a major problem for jewelry retailers. The Jewelers’ Security Alliance (JSA), a non-profit trade association providing crime prevention information and services to the jewelry industry since 1883, recommends the following to help prevent distraction theft.
Smash & Grab Robbery Recommendations:
Smash and grab robberies continue to be a major problem for jewelry retailers. The Jewelers’ Security Alliance (JSA), a non-profit trade association providing crime prevention information and services to the jewelry industry since 1883, recommends the following to help prevent distraction theft.
Smash & Grab Robbery Recommendations:
- Do not resist in a smash and grab robbery. In addition to sledgehammers and other dangerous tools, the suspects may be armed with guns and knives. Stay out of their way!
- Showcases with burglary-resistant, laminated glass on the front and sides, and special frames, can withstand many blows with a hammer and can prevent or reduce large losses. JSA has not seen robbers take retaliatory action when laminated glass is used and robbers are unable to enter a showcase or are able to take only a small amount of merchandise from a small hole. Furthermore, robbers frequently cut themselves on small holes and leave behind valuable DNA evidence from blood.
- Having an audible glass breakage alarm on your showcases can scare smash and grab robbers away who are trying to remain in a target store for less than a minute.
- Spreading high-end watches and loose diamond merchandise among several showcases, and not concentrated in one, can reduce the amount of the loss in a smash and grab robbery.
