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SERVICE STATION SECURITY

Service stations are high cash flow businesses, situated in busy traffic areas. As with many other types of small retail outlets, they are consistently exposed to a high incidence of crime directed at cash and negotiable goods, such as cigarettes. The more common offences experienced are robbery, theft, drive-offs, and breaking and entering.

In New South Wales alone, according to figures from the state's Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, offences committed at service stations almost doubled in the five years to 2000 - from 6,851 incidents to 12,677. And those statistics do not include drive-offs, incidents involving motorists filling up and leaving the service station withou paying for fuel. The number of service station robberies in the state more than doubled to 461 over the same period.

All parts of the industry are working to develop counter measures to minimise the risk to staff and customers. Central to this effort is the National Service Station Security Committee Code of Practice on Service Station Security, which outlines equipment and procedures to counter crime.

Service Station Security Guidelines (Published by the National Service Station
Security Committee June 2002)