Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC)

Volume 3, Issue 1 - 2/24/2009

We have included in this newsletter an article of the Loss Prevention Research Council. Read Hayes, Ph.D., and many of leading retailers continue to work at tackling some of the most difficult issues of the day by applying science and industry testing to the problems and identifying solutions and results. If you are not a member of the LPRC, please take a moment to visit its site. Hayes will also be presenting “Research in Action: Using Science to Protect” at RILA Loss Prevention, Auditing & Safety 2009. In this session, he will discuss how rigorous, scientific R&D can increase asset protection impact and cost-effectiveness as it has for medicine, engineering and most other disciplines. This workshop illustrates recent experimental, offender interviewing and predictive modeling LP research- along with how participants can set their own R&D agenda. The session will use participant feedback to discuss the R&D process with current examples from drug, supermarket, mass merchant and specialty stores.