Tuesday March 11 , 2014  Serial Burglary Case Study  Serial
Burglary:  Solved!  Serial Burglary Loss PreventionEvery time it
was the same.  The back door was found standing open, mutilated
by the sheer force of the pry bars.  Inside the Quick Service
Restaurant was a chaotic mess.  The burglars had methodically
trashed the place in their efforts to force open the safe and
destroy evidence that could lead to getting caught.  Their
method of operation was the same.  In four months, the burglars
struck 19 times to one brand in a 4 county area with several
sites hit more than once.    With so many incidents occurring so
fast, the company’s security, operations and facilities
management were exasperated.  The stolen cash and deposits from
the safe were devastating to profitability, but the added
expenses of repairing the damage made it much worse.  Over
$350,000 was lost from the theft of cash, expenses to repair the
building and equipment, cleaning up the mess and destruction,
and fortifying the facilities in eff