A United Front Against Organized Retail Crime

📅 Date: October 23, 2025

📌 Location: Holiday Inn & Suites – 33 Petrolia Dr, Red Deer, AB. *Call 403-348-8485 for special room rates

⌚ Time: 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM

The Alberta Retail Crime Prevention Summit was created to provide a dedicated forum for management-level asset protection and security professionals from major retail stakeholders. This event brings together law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, and industry experts to share insights, build partnerships, and develop strategies to combat organized retail crime.

What to Expect

✅ Expert presentations from our guest speakers

✅ A full day of networking and collaboration with industry and community members, which includes a continental breakfast, lunch, and networking cocktail hour (cash bar)

✅ Discussions on emerging trends, case studies, and strategies to tackle retail crime

✅ Interactive Expert Panel – Get your questions answered by top professionals in the field

Don’t miss this opportunity to network, learn, and contribute to crime prevention strategies that impact the retail sector!

Summit Speakers

Insightful discussion on retail crime

Ray Wilson -

  • Ray Wilson is the founder and president of R2K Consultants Inc., specializing in retail crime prevention. A 25-year veteran of the Edmonton Police Service (EPS), Ray has extensive experience in crime prevention, investigations, and community policing.

    As a leader in retail crime solutions, he has developed Loss Prevention Officer training programs, implemented offender identification tools, and launched targeted operations to reduce retail theft. He is also the founder of the Alberta Retail Crime Prevention Summit, fostering collaboration among law enforcement and industry leaders.

    Ray is a sought-after speaker, sharing insights on proactive strategies, community partnerships, and innovative solutions to combat retail crime.

  • Sean is a dedicated Community Safety Advocate who has been an integral part of the Toronto Crime.

    Stoppers Board of Directors since 2002, currently serving as the program’s Chair.

    Over the past two decades, Sean has spearheaded numerous award-winning initiatives both across Canada and internationally, addressing critical community crime challenges such as Human Trafficking, Illegal Firearms, Hate Crimes, Illicit Trade and Organized Retail Crime.

    A graduate with Honours from the Seneca College Law Enforcement Program, Sean holds Leadership and Management certificates from Queen’s University and a Leadership certificate from Harvard University. He is a certified Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Level 2 Practitioner, a Situation Awareness Specialist Advanced Practitioner, and an International Crime Prevention Specialist. In addition, Sean is an associate member of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, serving on their Community Safety & Well-being Committee, and is an active member of the Ontario Gang Investigations Association.

    Sean's dedication to community safety has earned him numerous prestigious accolades, including the Key to the City of Baton Rouge for his Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in 2005, Canadian Security Magazine’s Security Director of the Year in 2013, and the 2016 Mission 500 Humanitarian Award, where he became the first Canadian to achieve this honor. Sean was a nominee for the Ontario Premier’s Award in 2021 and ranked #1 globally in IFSEC Global’s “Top Influencers” in 2022. He was also honored with the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers by the Governor General of Canada. In 2024, Sean received the inaugural Retail Secure Legends Award from the Retail Council of Canada and was recently recognized by the RCMP-CISO for his outstanding efforts in combatting Transnational Organized Crime.

    With over 30 years of experience in the Corporate Security Industry, Sean is recognized globally for his contributions, including being the protagonist in two Harvard Business School case studies on his innovative approach to retail crime prevention.

Crime Stoppers - an effective partner in combating organized crime

Sean Sportun -

Sgt. Kevin Anderson -

  • With 22 years of dedicated service in the Calgary Police Service (CPS), Kevin is currently involved in the Deployment Modernization Project, overseeing the virtual policing online reporting portfolio. In this capacity, he supervises the CPS Organized Retail Crime (ORC) Team, which comprises 8 police constables and 1 sergeant. The mission is to develop effective strategies to reduce organized retail crime while enhancing investigative efficiency and customer service.

    Throughout his career, he has gained extensive experience in various sections of the CPS, including Patrol, Traffic, Arrest Processing, Beats, and Organized Retail Crime – Offender Management. He has also been involved in several special projects developing alternative call response strategies. Additionally, he is chair of the Vehicle Standards Committee and hold a seat on the CPS Policy Committee.

AI Integration, ORC Strategy and Community Support

Detective Dan van den Berg -

A Cyber-Crimes Perspective

  • Dan van den Berg is a 20 year member of the Edmonton Police Service (EPS), currently working in the Cyber-Crime Investigations Unit. He worked as a C/C++ programmer prior to joining the EPS.

Panelist Speakers

John Beatson -

CPTED and it’s value on retail crime prevention

  • John is a former police officer retiring in 2021 after 33 years of service with the Toronto Police Service (TPS) and Edmonton Police Service (EPS). John worked in a variety of areas including Uniform Patrol, Criminal Investigations Branch (CIB), Youth Bureau (YB), Training and Education (T&E), Special Weapons Tactical Unit (SWAT), Explosive Disposal Unit (EDU) and Crime Prevention Unit (CPU).

    During his time in the Crime Prevention Unit, John was introduced to Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) in 2014. He immediately saw the benefits of CPTED and became the subject matter expert for the Edmonton Police Service. John took part in numerous CPTED assessments and overlooked assessments conducted by Edmonton Police Officers as well as facilitated CPTED courses. John embraced CPTED because he recognized that CPTED helped reduce or prevent crime unlike traditional policing methods that had officers responding to calls that were in progress, or already happened. Retiring gave John the opportunity to pursue his passion with CPTED and he created CPTED Alberta (cptedalberta.com).

    Shortly after retiring, John was elected to the International CPTED Association (ICA) Board and feels honoured to be working with and sharing knowledge with a diverse group of brilliant people from different countries in efforts to improve safety and quality of life for as many people as possible in his country and around the world. John was one of the founders of a new Canadian Chapter of the ICA called CPTED-PCAM Canada that intends to focus on implementing CPTED in Canada’s unique social and physical environment. He currently teaches the only Level 1 (Basic) and Level 2 (Advanced) accredited courses recognized by the ICA in Canada.

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