StoneHawk, the retail robbery awareness training company, addressed Houlden Group members at a recent London event.
Simon Wilson, pictured, MD of StoneHawk says: โThe opportunity to address the members and exhibit at the Houlden Group event, provided the perfect platform to further the awareness of the great work my team are doing to reduce smash and grab crime nationally. A very high level of interest was shown in our #StopSmashandGrabs training, and we are now arranging courses with the many members that asked for their staff teams to be trained.โ
Wilson added that the welcome proved that the Houlden jewellers are open to new ideas and all too aware of the current risks regarding smash and grab crime. Should the current rate of SaferGems recorded robberies and smash and grab raids continue in 2018, we could be looking at a 41pc increase on last yearโs figures, he said.
StoneHawkโs four-hour training course is delivered at a retailerโs space or designated training suite; the trainers add that they seek to minimise the impact on trading and staff abstraction by travelling to their clients.
The course teaches:
โขOpening and closing procedures;
โขDaily awareness and internal procedures;
โขRobbery behaviour / reaction;
โขAppropriate use of counter measures;
โขPost incident scene preservation; and
โขTrauma, its effects and coping mechanisms.
