Pharmacy crime and theft in Asia have increased over the past decade, with unprincipled and resourceful criminals targeting pharmacies for narcotics and controlled drugs. Monetary losses in pharmacies can occur in many ways such as fire, flood, insufficient controls, stock shrinkage, and inside or outside robberies that may cause financial loss this should be prevented and consideration must be made according to the process. This article focuses on the losses that occur from robberies, shoplifting, burglary, and employee theft in the pharmacies. The objective is to determine the observations of the community and retail pharmacists concerning prescription fraud and pharmacy robbery as well as their awareness to handle such situations, with continuing education programs on pharmacy theft. 

However, the major community concern of the public today involves "crime usually on streets and homes" -crime disturbing and concerning people and property in our communities. It is usually in terms of assaults, armed and unarmed robbery, burglary, and other types of crime. The bodies e.g. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the government agencies that suppressed the illicit drug traffic affecting the country, have never been involved with suppressing such types of crime. However, in a limited way, we entered this arena due to the sudden increase in thefts of controlled drugs and narcotics from community pharmacies.  Shoplifting is now the most frequent crime in the world, yet there is no arrangement for effective prevention procedures. Meanwhile, most prevention plans and policies aim to either increase community awareness of the severity of the theft or increase the detection measures and procedures that contain these elements assessed. Pharmacy robbery is one of the major problems related to the illegal and illicit use of controlled and narcotic substances.   

It is assumed that the recent application of time-locked safes and improved signage all over pharmacies had a noteworthy impact on the reported decrease in pharmacy robberies. The purpose of changing the laws and policies was aimed to increase and maintain pharmacy security, protection of patients, protection of pharmacy employees, and prevent the theft of drugs. Although countless research has focused on works to prevent and reduce similar crimes such as robberies and burglaries of pharmacies, violence against businesses and industries, and prescription drug misuse, there have been no studies assessing methods to prevent and reduce robberies of pharmacies. This crime problem is different from other crimes because pharmacy theft usually aims the robbery of drugs, not money.