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Police Department
20495 SW Borchers Drive
Sherwood, OR 97140
Tel: 503-625-5523
Dispatch: 503-629-0111
Fax: 503-925-7159
Home of the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge
Sherwood Police Department
Business Crime Prevention & Partnership
Crime – burglary, robbery, vandalism, shoplifting, employee theft, and fraud – costs businesses
billions of dollars each year. These crimes can be devastating to businesses, which lose both
customers and employees when worry and fear claim a business neighborhood.
The Sherwood Police Department wants to partner with businesses to help reduce business-
related crime in Sherwood. Our goal is to provide a safe and secure environment and preserve
the quality of life for our citizens, business leaders, and community. As part of this effort, the
Sherwood Police Department would like to help and work alongside the business community.
These types of partnerships are already in place across the country and have proven successful
in reducing and deterring crime in business communities. They have been proven to increase
security and the general sense of safety and well-being within business communities.
Benefits of Business / Law Enforcement Partnerships
Police Officers can help show business owners and employees crime prevention techniques and
strategies they can use to help cut down on business-related crime. They can help to teach
businesses how to avoid becoming a target for crime.
Law enforcement cannot be on every corner, so citizen involvement is essential to combat
crime.
You and your fellow merchants are the ones who really know what is going on in your
business community.
Cooperating with each other and law enforcement, you can help fight crime in your
business community in the most effective way – before the crime ever begins.