Medeco® Partners With National Crime Prevention Council

Medeco® and the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) teamed up to create an exciting, scenario based training that a partnership of locksmiths and crime prevention officials can use in their local communities. Through the United for a Stronger America – A Safe Workplace is Everybody’s Business initiative, businesses will receive easy to use materials that help make workplaces safer and more prepared for emergencies.

This initiative was developed as a result of the fear and apprehension that Americans continue to experience since September 11. Americans continue to worry about terrorism but remain uncertain about its impact on their day-to-day lives, and don’t know what actions they can take.

To date, the Office of Homeland Security and the USA Freedom Corps’s public response to terrorism has not been focused on the workplace. To fill this gap, NCPC and Medeco have formed a partnership to help businesses and their employees prevent crime and increase safety and security in the workplace. The United for a Stronger America?A Safe Workplace Is Everybody’s Business initiative has been developed specifically for safety and security professionals. The program provides (free of cost) the necessary tools and materials to help locksmiths and crime prevention officers set up meetings with local businesses to provide expert advice on how to increase the safety and security of their facility, and their personnel within.

Participants in the free training program will learn, through scenario-based training, how to make their businesses safer. This interactive method of learning will be easily applied to real-life experiences.

“This program provides local businesses with practical, useful, timely information that will help make their workplaces better places to be,” said Bob Cook, Medeco Security Locks’ President.

“Also, it is critical that local businesses become involved in homeland security effort across the country to prepare citizens for emergencies and teach them ways to be safer,” said John Calhoun, NCPC’s President and CEO, about this new initiative.

To create a partnership in your community, contact the NCPC at 1-800-627-2911(or use the links to download below) to order your free copy of the Partnership book and a sample of the Safety Tips booklet to distribute to businesses.

Medeco, an ASSA ABLOY Group company, is a market leader in locks and locking systems for security, safety, and control. Founded in 1968, Medeco offers key control policies and procedures that are unrivaled in the industry – as well as U.L. 437 listed mechanical locking devices.

The National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) is a private, nonprofit tax-exempt [501(c)(3)] organization whose primary mission is to enable people to create safer and more caring communities by addressing the causes of crime and violence and reducing the opportunities for crime to occur. NCPC publishes books, kits of camera-ready program materials, posters, and informational and policy reports on a variety of crime prevention and community-building subjects. NCPC offers training, technical assistance, and a national focus for crime prevention: it acts as secretariat for the Crime Prevention Coalition of America, more than 4,000 national, federal, local, and state organizations committed to preventing crime. It hosts a number of Web sites that offer prevention tips to individuals, describe prevention practices for community building, and help anchor prevention policy into laws and budgets. It also operates demonstration programs in schools, neighborhoods, and entire jurisdictions and takes a major leadership role in youth crime prevention and youth service; it also administers the Center for Faith and Service. NCPC manages the McGruff ®Take A Bite Out Of Crime® public service advertising campaign. NCPC is funded through a variety of government agencies, corporate and private foundations, and donations from private individuals.

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