Security Consulting Strategies, LLC

Product Tampering / Retail Extortion

Curtis Baillie, CSC is experienced in handling Product Tampering and Retail Extortion incidents from the moment of the crisis notification to conclusion. Curtis provides expert advice on the steps to take including:

• crisis team management;
• notifying the proper authorities and government agency(s);
• handling the public and media threat;
• reacting to and handling the product tampering threat at the store;
• in-house contaminated manufactured product recovery and
• examining returned or refunded medicines.

• Curtis was interviewed on March 30th by Valerie Fortney of the Calgary Herald for the news article : Fortney: "The Year of Shopping Dangerously". This was in response to the rash of product tampering incidents that have taken place in Calgary, Canada since the start of 2010.
  

Curtis wrote about Product Tampering and Contamination for the publication, Retail Crime, Security and Loss Prevention: An Encyclopedic Reference - by Charles Sennewald , CPP, CSC, CMC and John Christman, CPP. (Butterworth-Heinemann 2008). 

Curtis is available to speak to your organization about Crisis Management plans, Product Tampering Threats and Retail Extortion. These speaking sessions can be tailored to your organization's needs.