Retail and the medical marijuana shops are more times than not targeted for violent offenses such as burglaries and theft because businesses are still in the big way a cash-only operation with large quantities of cash on hand. This will cause attention towards attracting a criminal element regardless of the industry.
If people who steal are willing to commit theft at a liquor store, convenience or a gas station to only retrieve “couple hundred dollars or less”, then the opportunity for violent crimes to happen at marijuana shops is equivalent to being greater than these other businesses. This is very true when you are transacting high volumes of a cash day and have an inventory that is wanted, stable and easily robbed.
Dispensary owners need to go through the proper security steps to defend their business, workers as wells patients and customers. By hiring a professional uniformed security agent to your cannabis shop will highly increase the safety and comfortability of your area because the security agent works as a visible deterrent to robberies and violent offenses.
Close to home, we are currently displaying high profile officers setting into the marijuana industry. The New York Police Department prior chief of the sector has taken a lucrative opportunity as the muscle that will back a well-financed marijuana distribution network.
Phillip Banks III, who stepped down from the NYPD this past year due to a power struggle with Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, has taken the position as chief officer by a firm looking to dispense medical cannabis in the big apple.
Banks will be accompanied at the Compassionate Care Center of New York by Joseph Dunne, the prior chief of security officer of the Port Authority and the New York Police Department deputy commissioner.
Dunne will be a senior security adviser.
The men who once served the other side of the law will replace what was once the drug cartels responsibilities such as keeping watch of the growing facilities, overseeing security for cannabis deliveries to marijuana shops all across the state, defending what are assumed to large cash deposits.
“Security is paramount when it comes to pharmaceuticals and medical dispensaries,” Banks sent to The Post in an e-mail.
He stated that collectively him and Dunne will look “to make sure those who need and qualify receive medical cannabis in New York, as well as [to] make sure our manufacturing facility is the safest and most secure in the entire state and country.”
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