Business Watch Program
The Business Alert Network or Business Watch program, like Neighborhood Watch, is designed to enhance community security through heightened awareness and open communication between police and citizens.  It helps reduce crimes in commercial areas, particularly shoplifting, theft, burglaries, purse snatching, drug dealing, and vandalism.  The Business Watch program helps build relationships between storeowners and employees within a particular geographic area.  By watching out for each other, businesses can maintain a safer working and shopping atmosphere within and around their establishment.  A communication system, such as a fax network and email, between the businesses and law enforcement is established to pass on information about suspicious persons or activities.

With your support, we hope to provide you and your employees with the following:

• Training opportunities to learn how to reduce losses from robbery, larceny, fraud, shoplifting, counterfeiting, and internal theft.

• Increased awareness of criminal laws affecting the protection of your business.

• Empowerment to actively participate in crime prevention efforts and programs, in workplace and at home.

• Increased communication between the business community and the Savage Police Department, including information on crime trends affecting the business community.

• Security surveys to examine strategies for improving the safety and security of your business.

• Business Alert Network window sticker for your business.

We look forward to establishing relationships with you and your employees.  If you would like your business to become a member of BAN, please contact Officer Patrick Mans of the Crime Prevention Unit of the Savage Police Department at 952-882-2604, or email at pmans@ci.savage.mn.us.