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Protect your cash Cash Connect recently invited members of the press to attend a media briefing on the latest trends in business crime. CASH CONNECT IS one of the
armed robbery against cash deposit
leaders in the automated cash
devices and the dramatic increase
management solutions for the retail
in this kind of attack suggests that
sector and apart from sharing its
criminals are enjoying an abnormally
experience in the field also showed
high degree of success and that many
off some of its products.
of the devices in use are not strong
Several violent armed robberies
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enough to offer the type of resistance necessary to discourage them. During a burglary, the findings
time a cash in transit van was
show that general retail stores that
completely destroyed by robber
only trade during the day time are
after it got boldly blown open on a
attacked when the stores are closed
Gauteng Freeway one morning.
for business - the pattern with these
“All indications suggest that the
occurrences is that an assortment of
retail sector experienced over 150%
cutting machines, angle grinders and
increase in robberies in 2016. In
the like are generally used to access
the same period, the use of plastic
the safes.
explosives in attempts to steal from
Security professionals caution
cash deposit devices increased
that robberies are more often than
by over 400%. We can reasonably
not executed with careful planning
expect to see a spike in business
by organised crime syndicates who
crime during April as consumers go
collect as much information about
on holiday and the volume of cash
the target as is possible. Information
increases at retail stores across the
about the amount of cash and the
country,” says Richard Phillips, joint 5032.B. Max Durata 1/4 pg x 5x DIY TN MAY’17
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CEO of Cash Connect Management Solutions. The trends show that syndicates attack in groups of 6 to 12 armed men, with armed robberies as the highest number of attacks, closely followed by business burglaries. The common use of plastic explosives in the execution of an
// OVER DECEMBER, CASH CONNECT EXPERIENCED 10 ATTACKS ON ITS CASH VAULTS AND EVERY ONE OF THEM WAS DEFENDED //