Directing Apprehensions- Reward Seeker Style!
Directing Apprehensions- #RewardSeeker Style!
As a safety creator and Head of Security for a multi purpose building, I sometimes create safety by being a reward seeker.
Reward seeking is my way for folks who aren't licensed bail recovery agents ( bounty hunters ) to nonetheless go after suspects and advertised wanted fugitives.
There are two types of reward seeker: overt ones who actually detain suspects and covert ones who secretly direct police to identified suspects and fugitives. I urge would be safety creators to practice either style or ideally, both.
Doing nothing means unwittingly aiding and abetting criminals who don't need your help.
Last year, I shadowed a shoplifter I'd banned from the building after spotting him on its security cameras. He didn't know I was behind him on the phone with a police executive who had several units descend upon him en masse.
Another time in 2018 myself and a covert ensemble of business owners kept tabs on a thief until the police arrived to arrest him. I briefly talked to him until officers in the unit behind him were near enough to arrest him. This was a textbook example of directing an apprehension- reward seeker style!
I also think back years ago when I got a man who'd exposed himself to a group of school girls arrested. The sergeant I'd alerted walked up on him and as he tried to step away I grabbed him and pushed him into the officer's waiting hands.
While I call this being a reward seeker, often the reward isn't monetary. Most of these cases pay dividends of displacing negativity in our midst instead of doing nothing.
These instances show would be seekers they don't have to be in law enforcement or bail recovery agents to reduce the number of troublemakers in their area.
Go to your police department social media; news bulletins; periodicals or sites like Crime Stoppers and let the seeking begin!
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Reward Seeker Since the 90s!
Reward Seeker Since the 90s!
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