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What is Business Watch?
Business Watch is a crime prevention program that is a collaborative effort between participating local businesses and the Kalispell Police Department. We enlist the active participation of merchants and businessmen to partner with us to prevent and reduce crime in our city. Business Watch is a voluntary participation program and is at no cost to businesses. We will provide training and information to business so we can band together in crime prevention.
Overview:
Business Watch is a program in which the Kalispell Police Department will provide training, advice, and information sharing with businesses to help deter criminal activities. The information sharing will take place through mass emails on current crime trends, for example; if we are experiencing a trend of counterfeit money, to relay the description of forgery suspects that have not yet been caught, and current money scams.
We will provide training and education seminars on topics such as but not limited to:
- Employee safety
- Workplace violence
- Internal theft
- Theft/ shoplifting
- Counterfeiting
- Burglary
- Robbery
- Building security
- Fraud
- How to be a good witness and effectively report crimes.
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We will also provide on-site suggestions (if requested) of how businesses can improve security.
Benefits:
It is our intention that through education and information sharing we will reduce crime, recognize and reduce risks, and successfully catch and prosecute criminals. Not only will businesses benefit but our community as a whole will benefit because the Kalispell Police Department has more eyes and ears in the community assisting us in letting the criminals know they are not welcome and will not be tolerated.
How to participate:
We are currently conducting email surveys to see what interested businesses would like to see from this program. We will then make adjustments to make it the most productive program it can be.
If you wish to participate send an email to kpd@kalispell.com and request to be put on the Business Watch participation list.
At this point we are limiting participation to the inner city limits of Kalispell. It is our hope that we will be able to expand in the future.
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