The Shopping Centre Armed Robbery Thread....

That seems too easy at a closed shopping centre, should be easier to protect than a centre during business hours. Surely a thermal imaging camera system would offer early detection during closed times..?
 
Milano said:
That seems too easy at a closed shopping centre, should be easier to protect than a centre during business hours. Surely a thermal imaging camera system would offer early detection during closed times..?
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Can the police be there in three minutes though?

I wonder if shops don't keep their stock in safes overnight? There have been many of these robberies to simply leave your stock where it can got at in that short a time.
 
R13... said:
Can the police be there in three minutes though?

I wonder if shops don't keep their stock in safes overnight? There have been many of these robberies to simply leave your stock where it can got at in that short a time.
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Armed response companies could respond. These 8 security guards seem like a waste of money. But yeah there must be a better way.
 
Telkom store, could not happen to a nicer state entity.
 
Shoppers tell of mall terror

Phoenix - It was 15 minutes of sheer terror.

This is how a shopper described a violent encounter with a heavily armed gang of about 20 robbers at a supermarket at the Whitehouse shopping complex in Phoenix.

The robbers escaped with an undisclosed sum of money contained in cash boxes on Thursday morning.

Three independent sources who were in the supermarket said at the time that the robbers had carried a pick into the premises to break the safe but they did not use the tool because a manager had given them the keys to the safe.

The sources said the robbers’ sole focus was the money in the cash boxes, the safe and the tills.

Two civilians, a woman and a man, who were in separate vehicles, were shot at by the robbers.

The woman sustained a gunshot wound to her hand and the man was shot three times in his legs.

Pat Moodley, 64, a retired manager at a pet products firm, said one of the robbers, whose face was covered with a balaclava, had pointed an AK47 at him as he (Moodley) made his way out of the store with his trolley, and had jumped into Moodley's vehicle.

“The robber said ‘switch off, switch off’ as I was about to put the key into the ignition. He said if I remained quiet, nothing would happen, but if I moved I would be killed. Simultaneously, other robbers did the same to other shoppers who went to their vehicles or had just arrived in the parking lot. It was a frightening and well co-ordinated robbery.”
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More at:http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/shoppers-tell-of-mall-terror-2003062
 
Robbers gun down guard in Cape Town mall robbery, escape in hijacked taxi

Cape Town - Three men who robbed a store in a Cape Town shopping mall and killed a security guard are still at large, Western Cape police said on Thursday.

The trio hit the Imariki Centre in Philippi on Wednesday afternoon at 17:00.

Police spokesperson Captain FC Van Wyk said murder and business robbery cases were under investigation.

The suspects are understood to have gunned down the guard, before making their way into a shop where they demanded money.

"They fled the scene with an undisclosed amount cash, and on their way out, hijacked a local taxi [escaping in the] Toyota Avanza," Van Wyk said.

No one had been arrested, Van Wyk confirmed.

News24
Link: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/N...mall-robbery-escape-in-hijacked-taxi-20160407
 
More info

Robbers in security uniforms pull off daring heist

Cape Town - Six armed robbers pulled off a daring cash-in-transit robbery at the Pick n Pay in the Promenade Mall in Mitchells Plain on Monday, making off with a bag of money.

Metro police arrested suspects in Beacon Valley shortly after the heist.

However, the police could not confirm whether the arrests were connected to the cash heist.

Hundreds of shoppers fled the store when it became apparent a robbery was taking place.

According to witnesses, the robbers were dressed as security guards.
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More at:http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/robbers-in-security-uniforms-pull-off-daring-heist-2016434
 
Armed thieves get away with perfume loot at Rosebank Mall

A brazen robbery took place at the Rosebank Mall earlier this afternoon, where four robbers allegedly made off with perfumes worth about R50 000.

The robbery took place at the Clicks store in the mall. One of the four robbers was armed and forced staff members and customers to lay on the floor while they cleaned out perfumes from the shelves into a bags.
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More at:http://rosebankkillarneygazette.co....s-getaway-with-perfume-loot-at-rosebank-mall/
 
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