READ HAYES has been a Security Researcher and Consultant since 1984. He has over 28 years' hands-on crime and loss control experience with numerous organizations worldwide, including Target, Home Depot, Bloomingdales, Coles Meyer, Disney, Proctor and Gamble and Wal-mart. A co-ordinator of the Loss Prevention Research Team at the University of Florida and Director of the retailer-supplier coalition Loss Prevention Research Council, his current research focuses on offender decision-making, total supply chain protection, asset and key product protection and premises violence, security and safenes