NEORCA hosts another successful symposium on organized retail crime

The New England Organized Retail Crime Alliance (NEORCA) is pleased to announce a successful 2024 ORCA Symposium at the Wayfair corporate offices in Boston, Massachusetts. NEORCA worked with law enforcement and NESPIN to host the event in 2024, supported by sponsorship from Auror, Target Corporation, Gatekeeper and Thomson Reuters. The aim was to discuss current and future initiatives to contain and combat the threat of organized retail crime in the region.

The symposium brought together retail victims with law enforcement, intelligence analysts and prosecutors from local, state and federal agencies. Ben Dugan, General Manager of Central Investigations at CVS, opened the event as the keynote speaker, discussing the early transformation of e-commerce in 2005, using online marketplaces to curb stolen goods, and bringing us to the present day. Other speakers included the district attorneys from Suffolk and Plymouth County, MA; Paul McLaughlin, deputy superintendent of the Boston Police Department; Massachusetts State Police; and the New England leadership for Homeland Security Investigations.

We thank all retailers and law enforcement who attended the symposium at Wayfair, Boston. We are proud of the collaboration in New England and the results achieved in combating organized retail crime. We look forward to announcing future NEORCA meetings next year.

Wayfair’s security team was a great host and supporter of this event. A special thanks to Gatekeeper, Checkpoint and Axon for sponsoring LPC scholarships for three lucky recipients in our raffle. NEORCA would also like to thank Ryan Kearney, General Council, and the Retailers Association of Massachusetts for supporting this event.