You can practice! And the more you do, the easier it becomes. The challenge is to maintain situational awareness ALL THE TIME! Now, this should all make sense to you, and you could probably follow all these steps if you knew in advance that you were heading into trouble. Be ready to take action if you feel unsafe.Predict what could happen and come up with options for how you could react.Understand what you see, feel, hear, etc.Gather information about your environment.The more complete definition of situational awareness for personal protection includes: Its simplest definition? Being more aware of what’s going on around you! We’ve written before about situational awareness. Practice situational awareness all the time to help keep yourself out of harm’s way! (These thieves seem to be drawn by wide aisles, lots of merchandise, multiple ways out, and easy escape routes for their cars.) And it would be a good idea to shop in smaller local stores rather in malls or big box stores. You might avoid being caught up in an incident by shopping during daylight hours. But the snatch and grab gangs swoop in and get out before law enforcement personnel can get there. Certainly, mall and store security has been beefed up. It’s not clear that there is any way to prevent such an incident. We don’t want that someone to be you! Can I prevent a smash and grab incident? So far, though while shoppers’ packages have been snatched by the mobs, no shoppers have been reported injured.īut it’s likely only a matter of time before a shopper or staff member is in the wrong place at the wrong time, or makes the wrong move. Within minutes, they are gone.Ī security guard was shot and killed as he defended a video team filming the violence.
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Teams of people, clearly organized and prepared with crow bars and hammers, violently invade upscale stores, breaking windows and display cases, and making off with thousands of dollars of high-end merchandise. Over the past few days of Black Friday shopping frenzy, a handful of major cities have experienced dozens of violent Smash and Grab incidents. This week, however, I have felt obliged to add a new threat for you to consider: a Smash and Grab incident! So much of emergency preparedness is just getting smarter and more secure around the basics. It’s not too often that I add a new topic to our list of Advisories.
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