Constabte Terry Pakenham tells an audience at Caledonia Senior
Secondary school how to protect their businesses from robbery,
fraud, and shoplifting, during last night’s crime prevention
seminar, sponsored by B.C. Police Commission and Terrace

Learning how to

foil those crooks

’ by WILMA SELLERS

-His name is Bob, but
his friends call him Ace.
He. makes a_ living

‘working plastic.” In’

-other words, he is a
crook.

“Plastic” means credit
cards. Ace uses stolen
cards to purchase
merchandise from un-
witting store owners,
goods he later sells.

‘Ace and his un-
scrupulous friends are
characters in the
videotape Hot Cards, part
of the 3%-hour crime
prevention seminar
presented Wednesday
night by RCMP Constable
Terry Pakenham,
Terrace crime preven:
tion and community
police co-ordinator.

. With the assistance of
Store clerks who didn't
check Ace’s iden:
fication, or compare his
signature with that on the
card, or consult the “hot
card” list, or bother
phoning the credit
company for
authorization - Ace

assisted by Constable
Phil Noonan, Staff Sgt.
Len Jarvis and Inspector
Ron Evans,

Describing an armed
robbery as “probably one
of the most traumatic
experiences of your life,”
he said the store owner
faces an individual who is
desperate and where,
“the potential for
violence is horrendous.”

The constable said
robbers may pick their
target carefully, looking
for a messy store, where

‘money is probably also
handled sloppily,. one .

with poor lighting and a
cash regisler not visible
from outside, and a store
likely to bave large sums
of money, and where
there is an easy escape
route,

“But don't think ‘I'm

none of those things.’ If

you have: cash and
merchandise you are
vulnerable,” he warned.

Store owners can
protect. themselves by
being wary of questions

-from strangers, marking

collected a $200 -suede.., pegner and keeping

-£09t,.a pile

bag - all in one morning. --
As he said "Not bad for
half a day's work.”

Ace is a fictional
character, but crooks like
him are all too real to
Constable Pakenham. In
one. B.C, case a man
armed with stolen
identification cards wrote
thousands of dollars of
bad cheques throughout
the Lower Mainland
within a 48-hour period: ©
The thief wasp a
Caucasion of medium
height, ‘‘built like a
Sherman tank,” said the
constable, while the man
whose picture was on the
LD. was an East Indian,
about six feet tall and 145
pounds. Store ‘clerks
simply hadn't bothered to
look closely at the 1.D.
pictures. -

About 80
businesspeople and local
residents filled

to hear Constable
Pakenham describe the
tricks of the criminal
trade, and the methods
atore owners can use to
protect their businesses
agalnst..rebbery, fraud,
including bad cheques

and stolen credit cards,

and shoplifters. Con:

stable Pakenham was

new ahirts, {he reco
avrlock radlovaet a lt , pumbers tie

‘stable

the |
_ auditorium of Caledonia .
Senior Secondary school.

i sea

in the tilt
windows a of ad-
vertisements and. the

store well-lit, making

frequent. depoeagits - of
money at varied times of
the day and using dif-
ferent routes to the bank.

But if an armed robber
strikes anyway, Con-
‘Pakenham
cautléned: businesspeople

‘to avoid violence, net to.

argue, fight or pursue the
robber. “If you do
something wrong, this

guy is so paranoid, you.

could be seriously injured
or killed :...No money is
worth the cost of a human
life. Ld .

Bad cheques and stolen

credit cards may not pose .

the same danger. as a

sawed-off. shotgun, but

can threaten businesses
nevertheless. Constable
Pakenham advised store
owners to be particularly
careful of accepting
cheques on weekends and
holidays, a second cheque
on the same day as a first
cheque, second ‘or: third
party cheques, and
postdated or altered
cheques, Don't let an
abusive customer rush
you, hesaid, Ask for 1.D.,
have the customer en-
dorse the cheque in front
of you, . compare

signatures and deposit.
cheques to the bank ~
promptly.

The constable told the,
audience there are many’
reasons why people
shoplift - from senility to
Kieptomania to young
people on a dare, bowing
to peer pressure. For
some groups of young
people, “if you want to be
part of the group, you:
have to be on probation,
or if you want to be part
of the group, you have to
have a criminal record-
8,” he said.

Or the motivation for
‘shoplifting may be
simply the person
wanting something he
cannot afford.

Whatever the reason,
284 shoplifting incidents
were reported in the area
in 1983, up 35 per cent
from 1982. .‘‘And those
are reported, For every
one detected and
reported, 30 (shoplifters)
go out the door,” he said.

‘The constable advised
store owners to look for
individuals who
repeatedly glance

*-around,| ‘watching peoples pati
i ‘in: the ‘store. not they
Ruka ‘medenandlye,” of whol yi)

wear. “unseasonable

_ Clothing" - rain coats on
sunny days or heavy

coats in warm weather.
A simple friendly nod or
offer of assistance may

deter the shoplifter, wha
thrives on anonymity, he’ ¢

said.

More complete in-—

formation on how
businesses can _ protect
themselves is available
fromthe RCMP. Con-

stable Pakenham offers a

free ‘crime prevention
service’’. to — local

businesses. He will. go [>

through a store and

recommend how it might

be made safer.
Inspector Ron. Evans

told the audience earlier, .

“We in the ‘police force
are public servants,

subject to restraints and |

government cutbacks. So
we are left. with a
situation where we have
to go back to the old style
of policing where we
invite the community and
we expect the community

‘are going to do a great

deal. to look - after
themselves,”

‘AS
Pakenham closed the
seminar, “it has to be a
united co-operative ef-
fort.”

to about 4 p.m. ,

last year’s event.

_ by RALPH RESCHKE
Herald Staff Writer
TERRACE— The Terrace Group for |

The march: will. last only ‘pbout-.ani -
hour, but an:organizer fori ‘the event.
says that the, public:.la.weleome. to-:; and then turn west on Lakelse,. north
attend the rally. that will flow the peace.
waik in Lower Littl Park.

Organizer George Stanley says the

~ March, rally. and sing:
~ Saturday. celebration

Eleanor Baldwin, a former resident
of Hiroshima, Japan, where the firat
nuclear device was used, will also |:
Nuclear. Disarmament, will hold its -.makea presentation at the rally, She
third annual Celebrate Life: peace has a first hand knowledge of what it's
march Saturday, April 22, from.1.p.m.-.

i chp

on Lazelle,

at 635-7673.

like to live a city that was devastated
"+ by such a dangerous weapon.

The route will start from Lower
Little Park, proceed south on Kalum

on Eby and then head back to the park

Stanley hopes that community
march will coincide with peace walks - groups, churches, unions, etc,, turn out
occurring across the country. He for the march, to help celebrate
hopes as many or more marchers turn . Terrace as an International Peace City

 outas the 375 people whoshowed up for and asa Nuclear Weapon Free Zone. |

. There will also be a bike-decorating

“This year there will be people contest, singers, guest speakers
coming from. Houston, Smither’s,

Kitimat and Prince Rupert, and and join in the festivities, —

themarch has the stamp of approval —_‘ For further information call George

from the Kitimat-Terrace District Stanley at 635-7043, or Rosemarie

Labour Council and the Prince Rupert Goodwin at 638-1656 or Vietoria Kahn

Labour Council,” he explained.

Everyone is invited to bring a junch

Constable

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The Herald, Thursday, April 26, 1984, Page 3

Call for. a general strike

“VANCOUVER. (cP) —
With the expectation that
harah labor legislation is

Columbla, and the in-
troduction of non-umion

contractors on the Expo.
organizers
called Wednesday for the -

86 site, union

revival ‘of Operation
Solidarity and a possible
general strike.

Talka between the B. c.
and ‘Yuken . Building

Trades Council and Expo.

chairman Jim Pattison

ended Tuesday and now.

the cound! expects that
the

government will .in-

' ,froduce the legislation it.

promised earller it would
impoze to prevent lator

disruptions on the site,

said Bill Zander of the
B.C. Provincial Coundl
of Carpenters,

The fact that non-union
contractors were working
on. the slte Wedneaday is
“an outright act of
provocation and I don’t
think it was by accident,”

Social = Credit |

Zander told ubout 500
people attending a buble
meeting the council had

- called to discuss Expo.

Zander said he had just
Jearned that five non-
inion contractors had
been working on the site
Wednesday, even though
the bulling trades unions
had been told that none of
the $114-million worth of
contracts that were let
this week were going to
non-union firms,

Art Kube, head of the

B.C.. meetings for
Munro, MacGuigan

VANCOUVER (CP) —
Two Liberat leadership
candidates were in
‘British Columbia Wed-

; - nesday searching for
. delegate - support,

but
neither. succeeded in
having any supporters
lected at: five evening
selection meetings.

Justice Minister Maric
MacGuigan spoke at the
Vancouver
delegate
meeting in the evening
after visiting
Okanagan- jaltey eltles
during the day, . ‘

John Munro, Indian
and northern affairs
minister, met the media
at. an “afternoon news

Kingsway Ma
selection «

7 ierenca before at-
tending a reception with

about 80 Liberals in-
duding a number of”

Vancouver-area . Indian
chiefs, Later, Munro
dropped into ‘the. Van-
couver Kingsway
meeting and the Burnaby
constituency meeting,

; at the
Kingsway

oGuigan
Parliament should _ of-
fidally apologize to
two Japanese-Canadians who
were interred by the
federal government
during the Second World
War.

‘ Hex said he doesn’t
support = a — reoom-

mendation by an
party pariiamentary
committee that com-
pensation be paid to those

_ atill Living, MacGuigan

-believes they were paid
fairly for land and
property seized under
government orders,

But be said a fund
should be established to
provide money to addreas
the issues of racial
discrimination and other
problems faced by
minority groups,

Speaking to students at
the Vernon Secondary
School in the afternoon,.
MacGuigan criticized the
B.C. government for
educational spending.

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APELE BLOSSOM

B.C. Federation of Labor,
told the spirited meeting
that it may be time to

revive ation

Solidarity, the — labor
component of the
Solidarity Coalition,

formed last summer to
oppose some of the
previndal government's
proposed legislation.
“The only thing the
premier understands is
brute force," sald Kube,
who has been criticized
by some members of
organized labor for not
taking more = radical

action last summer when -

there were calls for a
general strike.

"There is no question in
my mind, unless there's a
solution in -the next few

. Gays and onless the

premier stops his macy

aij. in terms of trying to

BEDWETTER

LET THEM HAVEA DRY BED

“legislate
behavior, we're gee ly to
have a conflict. I don't
think it’s a conflict we
really want but how far
can you really back up
without going over. the
edge?”

gander and other

speakers said they expect -

that the government will
introduce the Expo
legislation and also

possibly the long-awalted ©

amendments to the B.C.
Labor Cade in the- next
few days.

The meeting
resolution asking the B. c.
Federation of Labor and
Operation Solidarity to
begin an active program
of opposition “‘to include
If necessary a general

Strike, to fight all the
Socred's antidabor
legislation.” -

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