CERTIFICATION
Certification Not Just for LP Practitioners Two Solution Providers’ Perspectives
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he Loss Prevention The LPF is Foundation (LPF) is a leader dedicated to in educating and certifying retail loss prevention and elevating the asset protection professionals. industry through Its mission is to advance the retail loss prevention and its accredited asset protection profession LPQualified and by providing relevant, convenient, and challenging LPCertified courses. educational resources. The LPF is dedicated to elevating “I first learned about the the industry through its Loss Prevention Foundation accredited LPQualified and in 2006 and became a charter LPCertified courses. member,” said Dilorenzo. “Over the years, as I witnessed the Lou Dilorenzo, LPC positive impact that the LPC Vice President of National Accounts, and LPQ certifications were Allied Universal having on the industry, I began LPCertified in October 2020 to aggressively promote the LPF and its courses with Lou Dilorenzo, LPC, began my colleagues and clients. his career and developed his I’m a believer in ‘practice passion for retail security in what you preach,’ so as a 1985 as a store detective for personal challenge I took the A&S stores in Long Island, LPCertified course and exam.” New York. For fourteen years, He continued, “One of the he advanced his career biggest benefits, in my opinion, working with other large retail of obtaining the LPC credential companies. In 1999, he was is industry recognition. Both afforded the opportunity to continue in the LP industry with designations, LPC and LPQ, a solution provider. He has been from the LPF have become synonymous with excellence providing security officers and among loss prevention loss prevention services as a professionals. I am proud vendor ever since. LPM
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to now have the LPC letters follow my name.” Dilorenzo also had some thoughts on the benefits of the course for solution providers. “Although it has been twenty years since I worked in retail loss prevention directly, I pride myself on being a good resource for my clients. My goal is to remain a bridge between retail and the solution provider industry, and I feel like the diverse, content-driven knowledge that I received in the LPC course is going to help me to remain relevant and continue to meet my clients’ LP needs.”
Mike Downs, LPQ
National Account Manager, AFA Protective Systems LPQualified in May 2020
In 1982, Mike Downs, LPQ, started his security industry career as an installer and then a service technician. Through hard work and self-motivation, Downs advanced into several managerial roles eventually becoming a partner in a security company. When the company was sold and with an expanded set of skills, including sales and operations management, Downs was hired in 1997 by January–February 2021
Lou Dilorenzo
“Over the years, as I witnessed the positive impact that the LPC and LPQ certifications were having on the industry, I began to aggressively promote the LPF and its courses with my colleagues and clients.”
