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continued from page 5 governments. The old adage of “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is clearly indicated as requiring immediate attention at all levels. that reinforce a firm’s mission statement, membership in professional organizations and acknowledgement of the value of employees’ efforts strengthen the employer/ employee relationship. such as Houston and south Los Angeles, where Target’s® CLEET certified personnel join local and sometimes federal law enforcement in sting operations. In addition, each Target® store had CLEET A second essential component certified personnel, who are is training and/or educating all The importance of this aspect of expected to protect the facility users—i.e. employees—of how protection against cyber-crime against shoplifting, dock thefts any business functions, its was evidenced in the and related crimes. But mission and dependence upon penetration of TARGET® in Target’s® system had one the business’ customers for 2014. Prior to that, the Achilles heel—human error. profitable success and Target® operation had been continued employment. acknowledged as having The penetration of Target’s® Without any doubt, training is developed a “state of the art” system was due to the an ongoing necessity and, system to protect its stores. FAILURE of an employee to unless employees are selected follow Target’s® standard and indoctrinated with a sound The corporate offices housed a operating procedure. The understanding that their work 24-hour camera surve