News Release

For immediate release
March 18, 2009

Spot the fakes at Mount Royal’s
anti-counterfeiting workshop
Police Studies course holding workshop over the weekend

(CALGARY – March 18, 2009) An anti-counterfeiting workshop will be held on Saturday, March 21 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. for students taking Trends and Issues of Policing, a course in Mount Royal’s Police Studies Certificate program. The workshop, which coincides with Fraud Prevention Month in Canada, will take place in the East Arts Building, room EA 1004.

Students will get hands-on experience detecting counterfeit currency using skills they will learn during a morning session. In the morning, students will receive instruction on the history of counterfeiting in Canada, the techniques used by the Bank of Canada to produce currency and how criminals deploy various counterfeiting techniques. Other topics will include identity theft and illegal skimming of credit/debit cards.

During the afternoon workshop, students will determine what currency is real and what is fake, after they are divided into groups and given packets of real and counterfeit currency. Representatives of the Bank of Canada and RCMP will be putting on the workshop for students interested in pursuing a career in law enforcement.

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For further information contact:
Fred Cheney, Media Relations Officer
Office of External Relations
Office: 403.440.5195
Cell: 403.542.7904
mediarelations@mtroyal.ca
http://www.mtroyal.ca