the reason tat i gt so late to blog is becoz..i go read my mangas hoho! well todae i had a shock becoz suddenly my GM chris jus walked in like tat and then she stayed in our shop from 12-6+pm..so be careful out there ar..wait hor she juz pop in anytime..i am juz scared tat she wil come in again nxt week..haiz muz relli keep alert le =p

wah lau..read at this piece of news..

7 cameras, but not a single guard on duty
Robbed POSB branch uses roving guard, who won't always be present
By Tanya Fong and Teh Joo Lin

AT LEAST seven security cameras covered every angle of the West Coast Drive POSB branch, but there was no guard on duty when an armed robber walked in yesterday and left a few minutes later with $37,000.

A DBS spokesman declined to elaborate why, though a guard was supposed to be on duty, he was not inside the bank.

A spokesman for security firm Cisco said it was not in a position to comment because of client confidentiality.

The Straits Times understands that several financial institutions engage security services on a roving basis.

On roving shifts, teams of two guards will patrol between a maximum of three branches during the day.

Other companies employ static guards, who stay in one fixed place all day.

The POSB branch robbed yesterday employed a roving guard.

Mr Lionel De Souza, a retired police officer and private investigator who runs his own security training school, said a guard should have been inside the bank at that time of the day.

'The purpose of having an armed guard from Cisco is to act as a deterrent. The robbery happened near closing time, when all the cash would be balanced before being banked into the vault.

'It's quite disturbing that the armed guard was not there,' he said.

'For financial institutions, the guards should be static, with a command view of the most sensitive areas, which are at the bank tellers. Especially if it's a small bank, there's no need for him to rove.'

Said the police: 'We encourage all banks and financial institutions to have static guards in view of the large financial transactions taking place daily.'

Mr Zakaria Ali, a 47-year-old logistics officer in a security agency, agreed, saying: 'We are not talking about guarding a supermarket. It's definitely cheaper to have roving guards rather than static ones, but the bank's job is to protect our money right?

'If you put one guard on patrol, robbers would be able to monitor the timings and know when to strike.'

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