GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – The Green Bay Police Department holding their third Retail Theft Summit on Tuesday at police headquarters.
Area law enforcement and representatives from retail stores around the city shared ideas on how to reduce and prevent retail thefts in the community.
Alison from one Green Bay area big box retailer attended the meeting. She says conversations in the past have been very helpful.
“This gives us an opportunity to share information from store to store so we can identify someone, say we have at our store that they may have already had. So, it helps us put faces with names.”
She didn’t want to say where she worked, but she did say thefts has been an issue at her company since she started a year ago.
“It cuts down on bonuses for people, I mean it affects the company all around. It’s really sad,” said Alison. “We have a lot of repeat offenders as well. That’s why meetings like this are really important that we can come and share information and put our heads together and try to get better ideas.”
Attendees were given a packet of detailed information regarding crime and theft statistics in the city as well as a booklet with retail theft intervention strategies to implement in their place of employment.
Police say food, clothing and alcohol are the top 3 items stolen in the area.
So far this year, the average value of stolen property per incident is $126 dollars.
Retail thefts account for an estimated 28% of all thefts in the city.
The Green Bay Police Department averages over 600 retail theft incidents per year.
