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Thieves Need Four Things | Principle to Practice

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They need to know what there is to steal. They need to know where it is. They need to know when it is available. They need to know who is guarding it and who is competing for it. They need to know who will take it off their hands. Value Items must be sufficiently valuable for thieves to want to steal them and to risk capture. Map your resources. What items have high value in the specific context? Where is the demand for those items? Opportunity Thieves need the time and the space to get to the items they steal and to move them somewhere else. Map your time and space. When are your resources most vulnerable to theft? Where are they stored? What route do they travel as they are transported? How can people get access to them? When are they unattended or lightly guarded? Money can be grabbed and moved quickly, but a safe is heavier and harder to move. A car is easy to drive away, but a car with no petrol will not drive. Impunity Thieves do not want to get caught. They want to enjoy their b

Thieves Need Four Things Theft occurs when people simply take resources from an organization. Knowledge Thieves need to know they can steal. Map the critical details of the knowledge they need. They need to know what there is to steal. They need to know where it is. They need to know when it is available. They need to know who is guarding it and who is competing for it. They need to know who will take it off their hands. Value Items must be sufficiently valuable for thieves to want to steal them and to risk capture. Map your resources. What items have high value in the specific context? Where

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