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...annually from customer shoplifting, employee thefts, and the filching of some 10,000 shopping carts. Deciding that stealing has gone far enough, Kroger's management last week called on one of the U.S.'s top cops for help. Cincinnati's Police Chief Stanley Schrotel, 52, quit his municipal job to become head of the Kroger chain's security system...
...native of Cincinnati, Schrotel came to the police department during the Depression, went through night law school while in charge of the Identification Bureau, won appointment as chief in 1951 after scoring a phenomenal 99.33% on the promotion exam. During his regime, Schrotel quarantined Cincinnati against the spread of organized crime, prevented gambling and prostitution in Kentucky border towns such as Newport from sweeping across the Ohio River...
...Schrotel ran a model department. His men were ordered to say "sir" or "madam" when stopping a motorist, were warned against swaggering up to the car or leaning on the door. In the central station house, Schrotel had lists of " the prisoners' constitutional rights stenciled in black on the walls of every cell and even above the pay telephone. The chief's apprentice program enabled young high school graduates to serve as police cadets while they were going to college...
...lure Schrotel into private business, Kroger gave him a raise of more than $7,000 above the $18,000 paid him by Cincinnati. As chief company cop, he will head a team of security officers responsible for 1,458 stores spread over 24 states. His duties will range from advising management on security policies and investigating major thefts to planning such seemingly simple preventive measures as how to keep a store's back door effectively locked...
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