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7 results foundAuthor: Kole, Olaotse John Title: An Examination of Security Measures for the Protection of Petrol Stations: An Anslysis of Case Studies in Gauteng Summary: Security measures need to be put in place in order to deal with any security weaknesses that might occur or be observed. Care should be taken when addressing any crime or loss problem in any organisation, in this research study more specifically: petrol stations. It is clear that because of their diverse locations petrol stations have different levels of risks, e.g. low, medium and/or high risks. The study explored many issues including, among the others: security measures; petrol stations’ busiest times; vulnerable assets at petrol stations. Details: Pretoria, South Africa: University of South Africa, 2010. 226p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed May 5, 2011 at: http://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/3847 Year: 2010 Country: South Africa URL: http://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/3847 Shelf Number: 121654 Keywords: Crime PreventionCrime Prevention through Environmental DesignFuel TheftGasoline StationsPetrol TheftSecurityTheft (South Africa) |
Author: Great Britain. Durham Constabulary Title: Crime Reduction Toolkit for Service Stations Summary: Today’s service stations do much more than just sell petrol to motorists. They are an important neighbourhood asset providing a wide range of goods and services both during and outside normal shop opening hours. Oil companies, petrol retailers and police forces alike are clamping down on criminal activity on UK forecourts. This determination to prevent the activities of lawless individuals, coupled with advances in technology and changes in criminal legislation means that there is no better time to introduce practical measures to address crime, identify the criminals and continue to make service stations safer places for both staff and customers. Key in the fight against service station crime are the various BOSS Forecourt Watch schemes. Forecourt Watch initiatives operate in over 70 areas across the UK. Under these schemes BOSS, the British Oil Security Syndicate works in partnership with petrol retailers, local police forces and other agencies to reduce crime and the fear of crime. Many Forecourt Watch schemes during recent times have seen service station crime tumble by more than 50%. Following on from these successes similar force-wide schemes are now being planned by the majority of forces in the UK. This toolkit has been produced by Durham Constabulary in partnership with BOSS, and takes cognisance of successful initiatives employed by police forces and private retailers in combating service station crime. It offers a menu of practical measures, which can be tailored to meet individual service station crime problems. Through use of the toolkit and increased partnership working we can look forward to targeting further reductions in crime on Britain’s network of petrol service stations. Details: Durham, U.K.: Durham Constabulary, Undated. 38p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 8, 2012 at http://www.righttoride.co.uk/documents/CRttoolkit.pdf Year: 0 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.righttoride.co.uk/documents/CRttoolkit.pdf Shelf Number: 125203 Keywords: Crime Prevention (U.K.)Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (U.KFuel TheftGasoline Stations (U.K.) - Petrol Stations (U.K.)Gasoline TheftPetrol TheftSecurity (U.K.)Theft (U.K.) |
Author: Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin Title: Do Thieves React to Prices? - Evidence from Gas Stations Summary: In this paper we examine whether fuel theft reacts on prices changes. We cooperated with the State Office of Criminal Investigation Stuttgart and collected data on fuel theft. So we have a unique data set with which we can investigate if and how much fuel thieves react on price changes of fuel. We find that fuel price has a statistically significant positive effect on fuel theft. In our most extensive model we include a lagged detection rate and unemployment as further time-variant variables and control for overall crime by including a crime index. Details: Ulm, Germany: Institute of Economics, Ulm University, 2015. 27p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 26, 2015 at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2674651 Year: 2015 Country: Germany URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2674651 Shelf Number: 137140 Keywords: DeterrenceEconomics of CrimeFuel TheftGasoline StationsGasoline TheftPetrol TheftStealingTheft |
Author: Dengler-Roscher, Kathrin Title: Do Criminals Behave Rationally? Evidence from the Franco-German Border Summary: In this paper we use a new identification strategy to provide further empirical evidence that criminals behave as predicted by rational choice theory. We collected data from German police administration to build an unique data set that contains monthly fuel thefts at gas station level. In a first step, we use exogenous variation of fuel prices to provide empirical evidence that fuel theft reacts to different fuel prices. In a second step, we find empirical evidence that this price effect is stronger when cost-reducing activities of criminals are additionally taken into account. Thereby, we observe the German border area near France where potential French fuel thieves have better opportunities to get away with fuel theft than their German counterparts. Details: Ulm, Germany: Institute of Economics, Ulm University, 2016. 35p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 26, 2016 at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2712872 Year: 2016 Country: Germany URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2712872 Shelf Number: 137655 Keywords: Criminal BehaviorEconomics of CrimeFuel TheftGasoline StationsGasoline TheftPetrol TheftRational BehaviorRational Choice TheoryStealing |
Author: Meini, Bruno Title: Gasoline Drive-Offs Summary: This guide deals with "gas drive-offs"-a form of theft in which motorists intentionally drive away from a convenience store or gasoline service station without paying for gas they have pumped into their tanks. Gasoline Drive-Offs reviews factors that are correlated with an increased risk of this crime occurring, and then identifies a series of questions to help you analyze your local gas drive-off problem. Finally, it reviews responses to the problem and what is known about these from research and police practice. Details: Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, 2012. 56p. Source: Internet Resource: Problem-Specific Guides Series Problem-Oriented Guides for Police: Guide No. 67: Accessed January 29, 2018 at: https://ric-zai-inc.com/Publications/cops-p244-pub.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: https://ric-zai-inc.com/Publications/cops-p244-pub.pdf Shelf Number: 130308 Keywords: Fuel TheftGasoline StationsGasoline TheftPetrol TheftStealingTheft |
Author: Victoria. Parliament. Law Reform, Road and Community Safety Committee Title: Inquiry into fuel drive-offs Summary: Inquiry into fuel drive‑offs That under s. 33 the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003, the Law Reform, Road and Community Safety Committee is required to inquire into, consider and report no later than 7 December 2015 on fuel 'drive‑offs', (that is, cases in which a person fills a vehicle with fuel at a petrol station and drives off without paying for the fuel) and, in particular, the inquiry will include, but not be limited to: (a) a review of fuel drive‑offs in Victoria and other Australian and overseas jurisdictions to understand the extent and nature of the problem, and its cost to industry and the community; (b) consideration of best practice approaches to preventing fuel drive‑offs in Australia and overseas, including educational and technological measures; (c) examination of 'loss prevention' measures in other industry sections in Victoria, and other jurisdictions, that may be relevant and capable of being adopted in relation to fuel drive offs; (d) current civil and criminal remedies available to address fuel drive offs and theft, and the efficacy of those remedies; (e) possible linkages between fuel drive offs and crime, such as number plate theft and vehicle theft; (f) analysis of regulatory, technological or other interventions that could be adopted by industry (including peak bodies), in concert with Victorian government agencies, to support the availability and application of civil remedies to respond to fuel drive offs; (g) examine the feasibility of introducing co‑regulatory approaches to enforcement, including use of technology such as CCTV, or practices such as pre‑payment and pre‑registration and implications such approaches for privacy. Inquiry process The Committee received the Terms of Reference for the Inquiry on 5 May 2015. The Terms of Reference were advertised with a call for submissions in various Victorian‑based metropolitan and regional newspapers in June 2015. A total of 30 submissions were received from government agencies, non‑profit organizations, industry representative groups, private individuals and companies. A list of written submissions received is provided in Appendix 1. Public hearings were held in Melbourne during September and October 2015. a list of persons giving evidence at public hearings is provided in Appendix 2. The Committee expresses its appreciation to those persons and organizations making submissions and giving evidence. The Committee is grateful to these people and organizations for generously sharing their time, expertise and ideas. Their contribution has provided useful guidance to the Committee in arriving at its recommendations. 1.2 What are fuel drive‑offs? Fuel drive‑offs occur when an individual fills their vehicle with fuel at a retail site and drives off without paying for it. Incidents occur when drivers intend to steal and when drivers inadvertently leave the retail site without paying. Anecdotal evidence from fuel retailers, as reported in news articles, suggests that fuel drive‑offs occur up to six times a week at some service stations in Victoria.1 Other fuel retailers report never experiencing a fuel drive‑off.2 Fuel drive‑offs are clearly not unique to Victoria and are experienced in other Australian and overseas jurisdictions. The Committee received evidence suggesting a correlation between fuel theft and other forms of criminality such as vehicle and numberplate theft. The Committee also heard that there is a correlation between fuel price and failure to pay for fuel, either deliberately or inadvertently The Committee noted evidence that a proportion of fuel drive‑offs were opportunistic, and committed by people who believe that detection and prosecution of the offense is sufficiently remote to make it worth 'taking the chance'. The Committee also received submissions and evidence that some people, through sheer oversight, leave the station forgetting to pay for the fuel. In some cases people return some hours or days later to pay for the fuel after realizing their oversight. Throughout the Inquiry process the Committee has been mindful of the varied reasons for fuel drive‑offs. It also became apparent to the Committee that there are diverse industry practices, police responses and legislative regimes in place to address the issue among jurisdictions reviewed by the Committee. Chapters four and five explore these issues in some detail. Details: Melbourne: Victorian Parliament, 2016. 138p. Source: Internet Resource: LRRCSC Report No. 1, 58th Parliament: Accessed May 10, 2018 at: https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/LRRCSC_Inquiry_into_Fuel_Drive-Offs.pdf Year: 2016 Country: Australia URL: https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/images/LRRCSC_Inquiry_into_Fuel_Drive-Offs.pdf Shelf Number: 150146 Keywords: Fuel TheftGasoline StationsGasoline TheftPetrol StationsPetrol TheftTheft |
Author: Designing Out Crime Research Centre Title: Service Station Design Review Summary: WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM? As part of the Preventing Stealing from Vehicles in NSW Action Plan, DOC was approached by the NSW Department of Attorney General and Justice to develop a design assessment and recommendation for a service station that would effectively reduce petrol drive-off offences. Police intelligence has shown links between petrol drive-offs (theft of petrol by filling up and failing to pay) and numberplate theft, which has links to other crime types. HOW DID WE REFRAME IT? An initial literature review and survey of best practice and police data showed us that a) this problem was not isolated to NSW, and b) that things could be done to help solve the problem, such as improved reporting to police. However, our research indicated that the main factor confounding problem-solving attempts was an unacknowledged conflict of priorities between the core stakeholders. Service stations are more than a petrol pump and a checkout: the business model of service stations depends heavily on revenue from retail sales, while the sale of petrol accounts for a relatively minor component of overall revenue. As we saw in the department store project, retail businesses typically allocate more resources to increasing sales than they do loss prevention. This is naturally not the case for Police or government agencies dealing with crime. Furthermore, our research uncovered additional, competing priorities in the service station industry, such as issues of staff safety, that service station businesses are tackling alongside problems with drive-off offences. As such, Police and government's concern with drive-offs were of lesser concern to service station owners, in spite of the fact that service stations would appear to be the primary victims of this crime. Unravelling this misalignment helped us come up with designs that would satisfy competing stakeholder priorities. THE PROCESS As part of our research, we sought to clarify uncertainty about the circumstances of drive off offences; data indicates that some drive-offs are inadvertent while others are part of a more elaborate crime spree. We then visited service stations identified by Police data as regular targets of petrol theft and observed the site layout and customer demographic to build hypotheses of the level of risk for opportunistic crime at each site. Co-design is a core component of DOC's design methodology; both the research and design phases of our projects rely equally on the expertise of stakeholders and our own staff. The first workshop we held was a Design Assessment Workshop where representatives of NSW Police Policy & Programs unit, Department of Attorney General & Justice and UTS academic staff worked together to identify areas of crime risk and opportunity at the service stations. In the next workshop, concepts generated by our designers were shown to participants from the workshop and participants were invited and encouraged to contribute to or modify concepts. A suite of hypothetical solutions were incorporated into a report which was given to stakeholders at the end of the process. THE CONCEPTS Some of the design concepts included putting the 'service' back into service stations, with a 'concierge' or valet to help direct traffic; electronic signage and changes to physical layout and amenity that would improve safety, reduce waiting times, inform customers about waiting times and reduce customer frustration; pre-pay or pay-at-the-pump options to eliminate inadvertent drive-offs or 'crimes of frustration'; a loyalty card system that would speed up filling times and reduce anonymity, and others. Details: Broadway NSW: The Centre, 2013. 21p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 10, 2018 at: http://designingoutcrime.com/project/petrol-theft/ Year: 2013 Country: Australia URL: http://designingoutcrime.com/project/petrol-theft/ Shelf Number: 150147 Keywords: Design Against CrimeFuel TheftGasoline StationsGasoline TheftPetrol Theft |