The Cash In Transit (CIT) Robbery Thread

supersunbird said:
Seems a CIT occurred sometime between 18:00 and 18:30 on R71, east of Tzaneen.
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More info on this (source: whatsapp):

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POLICE ASSISTED BY MEMBERS OF THE FARM WATCH ARREST SUSPECTS SOON AFTER CASH-IN-TRANSIT HEIST

2018-06-06

LETSITELE - The relentless efforts by members of the South African Police Service in Limpopo to deal with the scourge of cash-in-transit heists, yielded positive results when four suspects were arrested soon after committing an armed robbery.

The G4S security officers were on Tuesday 2018-06-05 at about 18h30 transporting money along the R71 road between Letsitele and Tarentaal outside Tzaneen when about ten (10) suspects traveling in two cars accosted them.

According to the information, the suspects suddenly started firing at the wheels of the security vehicle and after it came to a halt they then ordered the three security officers out at gun point before blasting it with explosives. The then fled the scene after taking an undisclosed amount of money.

The police were called, reacted swiftly and within minutes the vehicles were spotted. A car chase ensued along the Hoedspruit/Lydenburg road. Members of the Farm Watch joined and assisted in blocking the route. One of the vehicles was cornered next to Swadini in Hoedspruit Policing area and a shootout ensued. Of the five suspects who were in the car, three aged between 43 and 25 were nabbed, one managed to flee and one was fatally wounded. The three suspects and the deceased are form Burgersfort, Burgersorp outside Tzaneen, Huizeview and Bushbuckridge in Mpumalanga.

The other vehicle was cornered next to Strydom tunnel and after a shootout, the suspects abandoned it and fled on food. The police managed to apprehend one of them and others are still being pursued.

The following were recovered:
• A white Mercedes Benz ML
• A black Audi
• Two (2) AK 47 rifles
• One (1) R4 rifle
• One (1) Batetta pistol
• Two (2) police bullet proof vests
• Two (2) army bullet proof vests
• One (1) hand two-way radio
• Two (2) bags of money
• The blue lights

The arrested suspect are likely to be linked with other cash in transit heist committed in Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces. The Provincial Commissioner Lieutenant General Nneke Ledwaba has commended the members for their swift response. " This is yet another message that we are sending to other criminals out there that their days are numbered," said General Ledwaba.

The suspected will appear in Tzaneen magistrate court soon. More arrests are expected.
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CIT heist criminals 'must get ready to fight the war', says Cele after 13 arrested in last 24 hours

Police Minister Bheki Cele has thrown down the gauntlet to criminals behind cash-in-transit (CIT) heists, after 13 suspects connected to recent heists were arrested in the last 24 hours.

"Criminals have declared the war, so they must get ready to fight the war. All of the units are out of the barracks, all of the units are on the streets, we will be responding much quicker, and responding much more decisively," said Cele, speaking a press briefing in Pretoria on Wednesday.

Seven suspects were arrested on Tuesday evening after a G4S cash-in-transit van, travelling along the R71 between Letsitele and Tarentaal outside Tzaneen, in Limpopo, was attacked by at least 10 men.

Once the suspects were cornered by police, a shootout ensued where one of the suspects was shot dead and three others were critically wounded. They are now in hospital under police guard.
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More at: https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/...e-after-13-arrested-in-last-24-hours-20180606
 
Cash-in-transit heists: How they pull it off

They hire hotel rooms for meetings to plan their next hit, need powerful cars for speed and big money for bribes.

Cash-in-transit heists are tertiary-level crimes that rookie criminals have no hope of pulling off.

These are the findings of research by criminologist Mahlogonolo Thobane, who interviewed 40 cash-in-transit robbers in prison for her master’s degree thesis on the crime.

This crime is also not for blabbermouths and the faint-hearted. As one offender said in Thobane’s paper: “You must be brave. You can’t just recruit anybody, especially those who talk too much.”

Special abilities such as being a sharpshooter or an exceptional getaway driver, or having skills with explosives and computers, are among those needed to make it into a heist gang.

Thobane’s subjects revealed sharp reasoning skills, adding that “people who commit cash-in-transit robberies are very intelligent”.

“Reasoning capacity is important [and], if you are too weak in reasoning, you won’t understand that we have guns not to shoot, but just to scare the people,” one offender said, adding that “we shoot only if there is reaction”.

Planning appears to be the most critical part, Thobane was told. Depending on the “complexity of the job and how desperate you are, it could take up to four weeks or more of monitoring and planning”.

“If it’s a lot of cash, we take more time to survey the place. You need to know which branches are prone to police response; how many robbers you will need for the job; and you need to check out surveillance and see how many trucks are delivering and where,” one offender told Thobane.

For this, you need inside information. Thobane told a panel discussion on heists last week that, in many instances, robbers got information from security guards and bank employees.

Risks are taken sometimes and there is also competition between gangs, which might lead to some sort of first-come, first-served race.
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More at : https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/cash-in-transit-heists-how-they-pull-it-off-20180610-2
 
HEIST !

schumi said:
Cash-in-transit heists: How they pull it off
More at : https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/cash-in-transit-heists-how-they-pull-it-off-20180610-2
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Here we go ........

HEIST
South Africa's Cash-in-Transit Epidemic Uncovered

About the book:
‘With meticulous journalism and at a cracking pace, Burgess exposes the inner mechanics of cash heists and the complicity of police officers …’ – Mandy Wiener, author of Ministry of Crime

From the horror of the 2006 Villa Nora heist – in which four security guards were burnt alive in their armoured vehicle after a ferocious fight-back against highly trained mercenaries – to the 2014 robbery of a cash centre in Witbank, where a gang made off with almost R104 million after impersonating police officers, Heist! is an impeccably researched exposé of an endemic crime phenomenon that some analysts warn could bring South Africa to its knees.

Using the information gleaned from thousands of pages of court documents and press reports, as well as interviews with police officers, crime intelligence agents, prosecutors, defence lawyers, researchers, journalists, security guards and the criminals themselves, Heist! provides unprecedented insight into a crime that increased by a staggering 49 per cent in the first eight months of 2017 alone.

As informative and thought-provoking as it is distressing, this is a book by an investigative journalist at the top of her game.

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.co.za...cash-transit-epidemic-uncovered/9781776091713
 
Explosives similar to those used in #CITHeists stolen from KZN mine

https://www.iol.co.za/news/south-af...ed-in-citheists-stolen-from-kzn-mine-15424445

DURBAN - More than 200 kilograms of gel explosives, thought to be similar to those used in cash-in-transit heists, have been stolen from the Zululand Anthracite Colliery (ZAC) in KwaZulu-Natal.

The African News Agency (ANA) understands that the theft took place during the night or morning of June 6.

South African Police Services’ KwaZulu-Natal spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Thulani Zwane confirmed that a case of theft had been opened at the Nongoma police station and that detectives were investigating.

He could not confirm the kind of explosives stolen.
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. Parliament to focus on cash heist scourge ,


. Durban - Parliament is due to hold a public hearing on the spate of cash-in-transit heists this week, where industry stakeholders will be called into a public hearing focusing on seven priorities.

Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Police, Francois Beukman said that the aim of the public hearing is to bring all role-players in the cash-in-transit industry, especially in the security and law enforcement environment, under one roof and ascertain whether sufficient short-term and long term measures are in place to deal with the current scourge of cash- in -transit heists.

He said cash-in-transit heists directly affect the safety of security officers, the police and members of the public.
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More at : https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/parliament-to-focus-on-cash-heist-scourge-15408856
 
. Countrywide marches planned against CIT robberies

Durban - Thousands of security officers are set to take to the streets in planned marches around the country on Tuesday. The marches, orchestrated by the Motor Transport Workers Union (MTWU) – an affiliate of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa) in cash-in-transit industry is to demand an end of the scourge of cash-in-transit attacks that have plagued the country in recent weeks.

According to Fedusa, the heists especially Gauteng, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu Natal has reached crisis levels in recent months; hitting the 159 in the first six months this year compared to 147 for entire year in 2017.

In Durban, the Fedusa is expecting hundreds of officers to gather at the Gugu Dlamini Park in Durban Central from 8:30am. Marchers will then proceed
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More at : https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/countrywide-marches-planned-against-cit-robberies-15424523
 
WATCH: Cash-in-transit workers demand bigger guns

JOHANNESBURG – Cash-in-transit (CIT) industry workers on Tuesday marched to the Department of Community Safety Department in Johannesburg following the recent spate of attacks on cash vans.

CIT companies SBV, G4S and Fidelity handed over a memorandum with a number of grievances addressed to the South African Reserve Bank, the Department of Transport and Department of Justice.

Nearly 100 CIT robberies have been taken place in Gauteng in a space of less than a year.

The union’s message to employers and authorities was clear: workers are demanding better working conditions and proper equipment to deal with daily robberies.
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More at: https://www.enca.com/south-africa/cit-workers-march-as-cash-vans-robberies-spike

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POLICE MINISTRY WELCOMES LATEST ARRESTS LINKED TO CASH-IN-TRANSIT HEISTS

JOHANNESBURG - The Police Ministry has welcomed another six arrests of suspects in cash-in-transit-heists, bringing the number of arrests this month alone to 21. Spokesperson Nonkululeko Phokane says that the investigation is still at a sensitive stage. “We’re holding onto the details until the time is right for us to communicate in details what’s happened. It’s safe to say the minister is impressed and happy with these arrests. We’re seeing results with this operation."

The South African Police Service is on a drive to break the back of syndicates that are behind the crimes. Last week, Police Minister Bheki Cele announced a high-visibility and intelligence-driven campaign to tackle aggravated robberies such as cash-in-transit heists, armed robberies and hijackings. Cele also revealed that they nabbed a man believed to be the second-in-command of one of the syndicates responsible. He's also among the 20 most wanted cash-in-transit criminals in the country.

http://ewn.co.za/2018/06/13/police-ministry-welcomes-latest-arrests-linked-to-cash-in-transit-heists
 
I do not see why CIT companies could not allocate 6 vehicles with 5 top trained military men,in each vehicle, with every Armored truck. Have 2-3 more of them inside the truck. Allow them to be armed with top graded military ammunition and rifles, hand grenades, bazookas, RPG's, surface to air missiles, limpet mines and more. In any event of an attack, there will be 33+ trained military staff to take on these robbers and kill them all.
 
Meet excessive force with greater force, thats how it gets solved
 
R.V said:
I do not see why CIT companies could not allocate 6 vehicles with 5 top trained military men,in each vehicle, with every Armored truck. Have 2-3 more of them inside the truck. Allow them to be armed with top graded military ammunition and rifles, hand grenades, bazookas, RPG's, surface to air missiles, limpet mines and more. In any event of an attack, there will be 33+ trained military staff to take on these robbers and kill them all.
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I cant understand why they don't literally drive around in an APC, or a converted military Vehicle.

or go the other way completly, car that is unmarked, armored like a state limo, and looks ordinary enough.

especially if they quick enough and anonymous enough to blend in to traffic.
 
ForceFate said:
If this means permanently neutralising the threat, then I'm fully behind it :)
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To tell the truth I am a little annoyed with all these arrests, while I welcome them i would have preferred 10 dead 3 arrested. But it seems the criminals are learning very fast not to engage our highly trained officers in a gun battle, they'll be outgunned.
/I miss Mbalula.
 
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