Police Wrap - 12 May

Ha!! When I read this this morning I immediately remembered The Brad’s comment.

Also on ABC. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/03/2587748.htm

The Brad said :

I wonder if the girls boyfriend is dark skinned, wearing a blue and white striped hooded jumper, black tracksuit pants tucked into his socks and a grey hat?

But I’m sure the cops would have thought of that already.

It’s funny you say that.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/police-allege-belconnen-robbery-was-inside-job/1530285.aspx

I must be that I am half asleep, but I just relasied that you meant 18 YEARS ago. But for some reason I thought you meant 18 MONTHS ago. But then again, I am surprised that that amount of money was carried around.

Felix the Cat said :

About 18 years ago I used to work for a public service department and it was my job to drive myself from Barton to the Reserve Bank in Civic and cash cheque(s) for Petty Cash and/or Travel Allowance advances and then drive myself back with a briefcase containing up to $20K in cash. No consideration for my safety (or the money for that matter) was ever thought of. I guess society is generally a lot more violent and lawless these days so back then it wasn’t that much of an issue.

I would of thought that this money would go into a Government Department Account & this cash would be transfered via bank trasfer. As imagine to what could happen. But then again the Reserve Bank is really classified as a bank like the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Even if you did have 2 staff members to take the cash to the bank, common sense would be putting the cash bag inside a inconspicuous bag, pretty much any bag or backpack would do.

peterh said :

Inappropriate said :

when we did the banking, 2 of us would go.

About 18 years ago I used to work for a public service department and it was my job to drive myself from Barton to the Reserve Bank in Civic and cash cheque(s) for Petty Cash and/or Travel Allowance advances and then drive myself back with a briefcase containing up to $20K in cash. No consideration for my safety (or the money for that matter) was ever thought of. I guess society is generally a lot more violent and lawless these days so back then it wasn’t that much of an issue.

Whenever I’ve done banking for work, I carry the bag in my backpack & just act like any normal person. I also take a bus that is also empty by the time it gets to the town centre in question, so the driver just drops my off 2/3 doors down.

more importantly – why on earth would you tuck your tracksuit pants into your socks!!

It’s a symptom of being a wanker.

Genie said :

Having worked in Belconnen mall and regularly doing the banking, I discovered that some stores don’t have the staff capacity to send 2 people to do the banking. Hence why only one person would go. I would normally stick the takings in my handbag so it wasn’t as obvious to what i was up to.

What I also don’t understand is to why they are asking for witnesses ?? Pretty sure they would have it on camera.

LOL! Only if Westfield have finally invested some of their $$$ on decent security, Genie. My wife ran a major chain store in the Mall for almost 20 years. One morning about 7 years ago we had a call at 4:30am saying her shop had been broken into. Not only was the store broken into by the thieves had enough time to dig the safe out of the concrete floor! The nearby butcher told us when we arrived it was him that found the door broken open and the store a mess (BTW: the corridors behind the shops are a rat infested disgrace). It took him a good half hour to summon security, which was regarded by many at that time to be an absolute joke. In the end the total of shops broken into in that single night was around the 15 mark. ‘Security’ knew nothing about it. In fact, it was determined that one of the loading dock side doors had been left unlocked allowing access to someone that shouldn’t have had it. There were certainly no camera’s then.

sunshine said :

more importantly – why on earth would you tuck your tracksuit pants into your socks!!

He escaped on a bike perhaps?