Officer provide safety seminars to local businesses to help educate their employees about measures they can take to make their business a more secure work environment. To schedule a safety seminar, contact the Community Services Officer at (314)729-4833.

Each night. officers patrol businesses in Crestwood to make sure they are secure. These building checks include looking for unlocked doors and suspicious activity. Officers will contact the owner or responsible party for the business if anything out of the ordinary is
found.

Officers routinely contact employees and owners of local businesses to update emergency contact lists kept by the Police Department. These lists come in handy when an emergency notification needs to be made during hours when the business is closed.

The Crestwood Police Department recognizes our need to assist the business owner/operator with the identification, arrest and prosecution of persons submitting “bad checks” for goods and services. Consistent with that responsibility is the need for the business operator to make every effort to properly identify the person writing the check and make available the employee accepting who originally accepted the draft.

Our policy is designed to assist the business operator in the process of identification, designation of the
responsible employee, and to assure that the required procedure has been followed that is consistent with the mandate of the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney. Statutes are specific for remedies available to business operators and contact with the police department is to enhance the prosecution of the person suspected of writing the check.

We have simplified the process by providing a simple to use form that identifies the various responsibilities needed to satisfy statutory requirements. We require this form to be completed at the time of report. Training is available for business employees by the department.