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This months Top 10 looks at UK robberies.
Alarms may have been raised, but perhaps
they weren’t acted upon as quickly or
effectively as they should have been!
Edition 5 • May 2015
5. Brinks Mat, Heathrow - £26M (1983).
1. Securitas Depot, Tonbridge, Kent £53M (2006). The robbers kidnapped the
manager, his wife and eight-year-old son. The
manager was told his family would be harmed if
he did not cooperate. Currently the police have
recovered £20M.
2. Graff Jeweller's, London - £40M (2009).
After taking a female member of staff hostage
the armed gang robbed the New Bond Street
store, stealing expensive jewellery and diamonds
then escaped by changing transport several times.
3. Knightsbridge Safe Deposit Centre,
London - £40M (1987). Valerio Viccei led a
small gang to the Knightsbridge Safe Deposit
Centre. Once inside, they subdued staff and
hung 'closed' signs in the window. They left
with an estimated £40m-£60m. Viccei fled the
UK but was arrested when he returned to ship
his Ferrari Testarossa to South America. He was
later deported to Italy to serve the remainder of
his sentence. In April 2000, during day release
from prison, he died in a shoot-out with police.
4. Northern Bank, Belfast, Northern
Ireland - £26.4M (2004). Armed men disguised
as police visited the homes of two staff members
and held their families at gunpoint. The officials
were told to go to the bank the next day and
let the gang in, which they did. The criminals
escaped with banknotes in Sterling, Euros and
US dollars. Most has yet to be recovered.
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A gang of robbers, aided by a security guard,
targeted a warehouse at Heathrow Airport
expecting to find £3m in cash. Instead, they found
three tons of gold bullion worth around £26m!
The sudden movement of money through a Bristol
bank alerted police who also found a family
connection between gang and security guard.
The 6,000 gold bars have never been recovered.
6. Graff Jeweller's, London - £23M (2003).
7. Midland Bank Clearing Centre, Salford,
Manchester - £6.6M (1995).
8. The Security Express, London - £6M (1983).
9. The Great Train Robbery - £2.6M (1963).
10.Baker Street, London - £1.5M (1971).
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Three strikes and you’re out
with millions of pounds of jewellery…
You would probably guess that the story to
which we refer is the Hatton Garden robbery. We
understand from reports, that the alarm had been
set correctly, it activated as it should have and
went through to the alarm receiving centre, who
in turn called the police. But they didn’t respond!
Why? the site had already had three false alarms
and had been taken off of the police response list,
which is pretty serious when you consider the risk.
Once you experience a single false alarm you
must immediately take actions to fix it. If the
false alarms continue, you eventually lose the
response you had, when all you might have had
to do was change a detector type, or change the
entry to a tag and not a code which could be
easily forgotten. Most commentators are laying
the blame with the police and no doubt we’ll all
be finding out more
in the coming weeks,
but false alarms are
not a Police problem.
So why didn't the
firm take other actions?
They could have; employed a guard, have the
CCTV remotely monitored, employed a key
holding response from a manned guarding
company, or even better fixed their alarm
system or improved its management. The
question remains, why wasn't action taken?...
This story is moving on, you
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WIRE FREE NEWS
Edition 5 • May 2015
Can you hear that alarm?
@WORK
What’s the first thing you do when
you hear a burglar alarm sounding?
Debbie Belcher joined WFP a year ago
to strengthen the administration team.
She has recently progressed in the
business and is currently starting
her new role as a Field Based
Maintenance Advisor. (She is seeing
customers and potential customers
to advise on getting the best
from our maintenance services).
A. Turn the TV volume up?
B. Curse and moan about it; to
whoever is in earshot?
C. Gingerly look out from behind
the curtains?
D. Get on the blower straight away
to C.I.D?
My betting the most common response
would be C followed by B, and then A,
especially if Eastenders was on, although
I have no official statistics to back this up.
The alarm sounding is a good deterrent,
but any experienced thief will know that
the chances are no one will come running
to see what’s going on, so they have a bit
of spare time on their hands.
So would it not be better if you have a
guaranteed nosy neighbour who will
carry out D every time?
Well you can, just by simply adding a
remote calling device.
This can be as simple as sending you a text,
calling you with a message or digitally
signalling a 24/7 manned alarm receiving
centre (ARC). And with the latest technology
this can be done via your telephone line,
GSM (mobile
phone network) or
your Ethernet (wired
computer connection), or
a combination of all three to
ensure your signal gets through.
By using a system that is linked to an ARC,
you also have the benefits of them calling
several persons including key holding
companies, private security guarding or even
the police (subject to your system meeting
the correct specification for police response).
Monitoring a system isn’t that expensive
and you won’t have to rely on your
neighbours breaking away from their
favourite TV soap to raise awareness.
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Debbie (or Debs as she prefers) has
had a busy year since joining the team
including; welcoming a new addition
to her family, grand daughter Poppy,
moving house, skiing and even fitted in
some time at Center Parcs, not to mention
taking a day off to help out as a host to
the Television & Radio Industries Club
(TRIC) Awards in the Grosvenor Hotel. She
has never been one to name drop, at least
thats what Eamon Holmes always says to
Debs, or was it David Walliams…
Q&A
Q1. If you were stuck on a desert island
and could only bring three things
with you what would they be?
An iPod with all my favourite songs
on, a hamper full of my favourite
food and a sun lounger.
Q2. If you were 80 years old what
would you tell your grand children?
Live life to the full and never have
any regrets.
Q3. If there were a movie about your life,
who would play you and why?
Goldie Hawn (the young version)
because she comes across a happy and
smiley person, which is how I like to
be, (I haven't got time to be sad!).
Q4. What was the last gift you gave?
Tulips for my best friend Muriel.
Q5. If you were a box of cereal, what
would you be and why?
Crunchy Nut Cornflakes - sweet and
nutty just like me :-)
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