Ekurhulen South Africai May 18 2018 – At least seven bags full of bank notes were spared during a daring cash-in-transit where a group of robbers bombed two cash vans in Boksburg this morning. Police still don’t know how many bags of cash the robbers offloaded from the vans into their getaway vehicles. “They managed to […]
Jamaica May 17 2018 Twenty-five operational personnel of private security companies (PSC) in charge of storage, custody and transportation of firearms and ammunitions are benefiting from a two-day technical workshop on international standards and best practices on stockpile management. The objectives are to reduce stockpile security risks to the minimum acceptable level with respect to natural […]
Scotland May 16 2018 National charity SafeLives has been appointed to train 14,000 Police Scotland officers in identifying controlling behaviours to support the introduction of the new Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act. Controlling and coercive behaviours are a significant factor of domestic abuse. The new Act, due for implementation in early 2019, criminalises these controlling behaviours for […]
Queensland AU May 13 018 Some security contractors who worked at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games are still waiting to be paid hundreds of dollars, almost a month after the event. A GOLDOC spokesman says it is not its responsibility to pay the security workforce directly. The Fair Work Ombudsman is making enquiries into the […]
Somerset England May 14 2018 A man who was drunk when he attacked a supermarket security guard in Yeovil then threatened to “knock him out with one punch”. David Christopher Eley had been being drinking when the victim found him outside the Tesco Extra store banging his head on the bus stop and shouting incoherently. He […]
Queensland Australia May 13 2018 A Sunshine Coast security guard has been knocked out and hospitalized after a “big” brawl overnight. Queensland Police were called to Kawana Waters Hotel on Nicklin Way at Buddina at 12am where a dispute was spilling onto the street. A police media spokeswoman said it was a “big” fight at the […]
Coventry UK May 13 2018 A man has been charged and remanded in custody following an armed robbery at a bank in Coventry. Jonathan Copson, 36, of no fixed address, was arrested on May 9 in connection with a robbery at the Fletchamstead Highway branch of Barclays on April 26 . He was subsequently charged with […]
DAVAO CITY, Philippines May 11 2018 A two-year-old boy was killed in a pedestrian accident on Thursday, May 10, in one of Davao City’s busiest streets where a speed limit is in place. Loviege Tirol Pangantihon was crossing a pedestrian lane with his mother in San Pedro Street past 11 am, when an armored vehicle suddenly […]
Kenya May 11 2018 Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiangi has already told private security firms the government will withdraw armed police from the Cash In Transit (CIT) business from July. This will leave the firms with the responsibility of escorting cash and other valuables for various institutions and individuals. Matiangi told managers of the firms the […]
South Auckland N.Z. May 10 2018 A private security guard has been attacked while protecting a single Tauranga City Council employee’s residence. The attack came the same week a security guard died after being assaulted at a South Auckland, Countdown Supermarket. Detective Sergeant Darryl Brazier said the Tauranga assault occurred sometime between 10.30pm and 10.40pm […]