Hill Air Force Base Newspapers | 2009-04-30 | Page 11

HILLTOP TIMES COSTS TIMES April 30, 2009 11 ACTUAL COST OF SHOPLIFTING From page 9 If a product costs $13, and the cost for AAFES to obtain that product is $12, the Gross Profit will be $1. If that product is stolen, you have to sell 13 of the same products just to break even from that one loss. Plus, AAFES loses the $13 in gross profit that pays to operate the store, to restock the item and other personnel costs, and the Morale, Welfare and Recreation fund loses out as well. watch people because there is no certain "type" of shoplifter profile to watch for. "We've caught contractors, civilians, active duty, officers as well as dependents," said Ross. "There is no specific group of people; it is a wide variety of people. Studies show that shoplifting is really a crime of opportunity, so people take advantage of an opportunity to do something they would not normally do. Most people do not enter our facilities with the inten- If charged with trespassing, there is tion of shoplifting, but they just make a possibility that one could lose their the wrong decision when the opportu- base access privileges as well." nity presents itself." If federal criminal charges and privilege revocation is not enough of a That wrong decision could prove deterrent, there are also the financial more costly than making the same implications as well. "wrong decision" at store off base, "There are two costs associated Ross warns. with shoplifting," Sydlik said. "There "Unlike the civilian stores outside are criminal costs - the court system, of these gates who pay dividends to stockholders, we pay our dividends to the fines, restitution and criminal record - then there are civil fines that the military installation we support," he said. "This also implies that every- give all retailers the right to recover the cost of the shoplifted product. thing we own is owned by the joint AAFES will charge a $200 recovery command of the Army and the Air fee in addition to the cost of any damForce, and our products are therefore aged or unsellable merchandise to government-owned property. Depending on the dollar amount that is taken, any shoplifter to offset the cost of our the Judge Advocates office can charge security, inventory and recovery systems." the person with retail theft from a federal installation, which is a federal Ross also notes that cashing a check charge, or they can charge the person at AAFES while knowingly having with theft of government property. insufficient funds in your account is All theft from AAFES-owned stores also considered shoplifting. "We reis mandated to be reported to the port the nonsufficient funds checks to installation's security forces. Security security forces and the person wrote forces will then report the crime to the checks will go through the same LEE ANNE HENSLEY/Hilltop Time* the JAG office, which will prosecute federal criminal process because our the crime to its fullest extent of the cash is property of AAFES and the A stuffed monkey wearing a vintage striped prison outfit sits next to the security i' law. Air Force. In the last two years, the monitors as a not-so humorous reminder of the serious crimes that can be § 75th Security Forces Squadron has "It is not a state crime, it is a fedcaptured on the cameras. eral crime. A federal crime will never found every person who attempted to take advantage of that check cashing leave one's record." the Morale, Welfare and Recreation gear displays, a police vehicle display^ system and have recovered the money fund to support child development In addition to these elevated chargan 'ID a Kid' finger prints and photos 5> and prosecuted them." centers, bowling centers and moi*e," es, Ross says the base coihmander kit, a military working dog demonstr** Ross said. can issue a one-year revocation of all Another difference between stealtion each hour by the 75th Security M AAFES privileges, which applies to all ing from an off-base store and stealing In an effort to educate children Forces Squadron and the AAFES BX p AAFES facilities on any installation from an AAFES store is the fact that about the downfalls of shoplifting security office will offer open house jj; anywhere in the world. "If one tries to the thief is taking advantages away and the extra measures that Hill Air tours, allowing kids and their par- 3j enter an AAFES-operated building af- from his fellow Airman when he steals Force Base's security personnel take ter his privileges have been revoked, from an AAFES-owned facility. "We to enforce safety and the law, AAFES ents to see the security systems and "jj ask questions about shoplifting and %i he will be charged with criminal tres- are a non-appropriated funds organiwill host the Safe Kids Fair on May other topics. There will also be a bakdjj ,passing under the federal law as well. zation, so all the mon^-y^we .make .goes,, 16 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at.fhe Sale with thp prnnppfU-Kiippnrting tH€?* We have a system that tracks (the re- directly to keeping our stores operat- complex. National "Police" Week:"ah31ts"F6unda- }} vocations) throughout all of ouF-stemes-.y». "The event.wilfctaave weapons ai*grand the excess amount.goes "S Shipments go out in honor of Hill Airman T he Landstuhl Hospital Care Project has honored Senior Airman Elizabeth A. Loncki from Hill Air Force Base's 775th Civil Engineer Squadron with shipments of care and comfort items to wounded troops in military hospitals stateside and overseas for May 2009. This includes the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and field medical units in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each shipment that LHCP sends is sent in honor of a military member who has made the ultimate sacrifice and lost his or her life in service to our country. The purpose of the Landstuhl Hospital Care Project is to provide relief items that enhance the welfare for military members who become sick, injured, or wounded from service in combat areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan. The items LHCP ships have been specifically requested by the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center chaplains and hospital personnel on a monthly basis. 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